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On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 7:18 PM, Brian Fraser <fraserbn@gmail.com> wrote: > > Yeah, we were discussing exactly that on irc yesterday. Overriding > _do_link is dodgy though, since it causes tests to fail, and means that > $b->link(lib_file => $b->lib_file($object)) ne $b->link(). > I think that I have the least worst solution, though. We can have > ->lib_file() accept an optional module_name parameter, and if that's > defined, we can use mod2fname there. Only two modules on CPAN use lib_file > directly, and only one would need changing, and the change is fully > backwards compatible, so I think it might be the way to go. > It makes sense from a backwards compatabilty POV, though a module_name method might be better for the future. > With that change, all tests pass on linux with d_libname_unique defined; > since the commits also remove the handling of mod2fname in the > platform-specific files, this will need smoking on VMS (and OS2, I guess, > but that's unlikely) > > Proposed changes are now on > http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/shortlog/refs/heads/hugmeir/d_libname_unique > Some details of the Module::Build patch need some tweaking, but that does look almost ready to apply :-). LeonThread Previous | Thread Next