Re: [Module-build-general] redirecting system() to a file, or ways to avoid it

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 11:29  AM, David Wheeler wrote:

> On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 05:13  AM, Ken Williams wrote:
>
>> Even though 1) and 2) are pretty ugly, I'm leaning toward 
>> doing one of them, if they'd work.  3) looks non-fun, and the 
>> further away I can get Module::Build and system() from each 
>> other, the better.  4) and 5) would be a lot of work, but 
>> probably the best from an architectural point of view.  4) 
>> would be really cool, actually.  Note that 5) would create the 
>> first non-5.6-core dependency in Module::Build, though.  And 
>> 6) seems like a bad idea.
>
> Can you tie STDOUT to a file to capture the output of xsubpp?

Additional complication when I tried these kinds of solutions: 
xsubpp does an exit() when it's finished.  So I either have to 
temporarily override *CORE::GLOBAL::exit, or I have to run it in 
a subprocess one way or another.

By the way, it's simpler to just open() STDOUT to a file than to 
tie() it.

  -Ken