module-build-general

[Yitzchak Scott-T. <sth...@ef...>]

On Sun, Feb 26, 2006 at 10:26:20PM -0500, John Peacock wrote:
> 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).

Maybe I'm misremembering, but I thought the problem was that it was
dying when there was no ExtUtils::CBuilder installed, but if EU::CB
was there it would run without dying even with no C compiler.