Re: [Module::Build] [Fwd: CPAN Upload: J/JP/JPEACOCK/version-0.56_03.tar.gz]

[John P. <jpe...@ro...>]

Ken Williams wrote:
> I noticed the subclass just wraps this method in an eval() and  returns
> false when the eval() fails.  Has that been a problem?

I believe that is the only way to prevent the build from dying if there is no C
compiler (i.e. I think this is what M::B should be doing internally).

> On my OS X machine with perl 5.8.6 and M::B 0.27_03 I get some funny 
> output from running 'perl Build.PL':
> 
> ---------------------------
> Creating custom builder _build/lib/version/Builder.pm in _build/lib/
> version
> Checking whether your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> 
> Checking prerequisites...
> Looks good
> 
> Checking whether your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> 
> Checking prerequisites...
> Looks good
> 
> Creating new 'Build' script for 'version' version '0.56_03'
> ---------------------------
> 
> Looks like that's because you're calling new() twice.  That's to work 
> around some problem though, right?

Yeah, I'm not sure the best way around that.  I need to call new() once to get
the commandline argument and then build up the real build arguments based on
whether the commandline "--perl_only" was passed in or if there is no C compiler
available.

I asked at one point about being able to take an existing M::B object and update
all of the configuration based on information gathered during the initial object
creation.  I believe the reponse was something along the line of "that would be
nice but for the moment new() is run-once" (I'm paraphrasing).

> I also get tons of verbose output from 'Build test', do you see that  too?

Yeah, I finally figured out to look at Test::Harness for how to determine
whether the tests are being run with verbose enabled (duh).  Those test section
headings will vanish in the next release.

John

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