[Module-build-general] Re: The 'inc' parameter

[Dave R. <au...@ur...>]

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Ken Williams wrote:

> In the patch that lent support to the INC parameter for pass-through
> Makefile.PLs, we added an 'inc' parameter to M::B.  I'm not sure that's
> a great idea, because it seems like too brief a name for a somewhat
> obscure parameter (obscure only because most modules don't need to add
> C libraries to the include path anymore in this perl-centric world).
>
> I think we either need to think of a name for it or fold it into the
> new 'extra_compiler_flags' parameter by doing map( "-I$_", @foo ) to it.
>
> We can still map INC=... makefile stuff to it properly in the Compat
> code.

I think making it part of extra_compiler_flags is best.  Fewer, simpler
options for compiling XS seems like a good thing.  EU::MM has an
overwhelming number of them, let's not duplicate that ;)


-dave

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