Re: [Module::Build] Problem building XS modules on AIX

[Randy W. S. <Ra...@Th...>]

On 11/18/2003 10:36 AM, James.FitzGibbon wrote:
> I've updated Randy's patch to find the .exp files in the right place on
> AIX, but I
> don't have the necessary Windows environment to see if I've broken
> things there.

I've updated James' update of my patch ;) There were some Windows 
problems. I think ExtUtils::Mksymlists is buggy on Windows; it dies if 
you don't pass in something for some of the arguments even if its an 
empty array or hash ref. I also changed it so that it generates the 
def/exp file in the source directory and put the correct names into 
add_to_cleanup().

James, can you please run this through the test suite one more time?

Michael, VMS wasn't calling Mksymlists before though it looks like it 
should have. Looking at EU::Mksymlists lines 53-58, I changed M::B to 
now invoke Mksymlists if grep $^O, qw(aix MacOS MSWin32 os2 VMS). Is 
this correct?

> Perhaps what is needed is to update EU::Mksymlists to both export the
> platform-specific
> extensions as constants and return the canonical path to the written
> file back to it's
> caller so that link_c() in M::B can act more intelligently.
> 
> Thanks.

Seems like a harmless but beneficial change, since the name of the file 
can vary depending on $^O, and there aught to be some way to find out 
what it is without read the source.

Randy.