Re: Phalanxing MakeMaker

On Feb 23, 2005, at 6:08 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:

> For any brave Phalanx folks who wish to target MakeMaker I can point 
> you at
> some critically deficient areas of its testing.
>
> 1)  XS.  There is absolutely no testing of XS code.  The primary 
> problem is
> determining if the user has a working build chain.  I think 
> Module::Build
> has code to do this and it might be possible to crib from that.  Even 
> just
> writing the build chain detection code would prove a big help.

Better would be to snark it from ExtUtils::CBuilder, which has a 
has_compiler() method.  One could also look at ExtUtils::ParseXS, which 
is simply a modularization of xsubpp.

 -Ken