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Re: [perl #118537] Add non-XS extensions to known_extensions

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From:
Nicholas Clark
Date:
June 19, 2013 11:33
Subject:
Re: [perl #118537] Add non-XS extensions to known_extensions
Message ID:
20130619113325.GW3729@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 12:15:36PM +0100, Steve Hay wrote:
> Nicholas Clark (via RT) wrote on 2013-06-19:

> > Moreover, I believe that we're inconsistent between platforms, in that 
> > on Win32, "known_extensions" has everything.
> > 
> 
> 
> I've just checked and 'known_extensions' doesn't have everything on Windows. It actually has the same bizarre situation that you describe for *nix, which has bugged me before. I would be in favour of changing it if nobody can think of anything that would be broken by it.

Oh, I'm a muppet. You're right - it doesn't. Well, it didn't, until I changed
it in one of the patches I attached. (It's hiding behind a wall of Configure
code)

> FYI, I've attached the output of the relevant "perl -V:..." options in a default build, and again in an ALL_STATIC=define build, on Windows.

Thanks

Nicholas Clark

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