On Aug 23 15:36, Reini Urban wrote: > 2010/8/23 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) <yselkow...@users.sourceforge.net>: > > Reini, > > > > The Net::DNS module, which you ship with perl, depends on perl-libwin32 > > (packaged separately) and Win32::IPHelper, the latter of which depends > > on Win32::API and enum modules. Win32::API needs a custom typemap file > > in order to compile on Cygwin, which AFAICS should be: > > > > TYPEMAP > > HINSTANCE T_PTR > > LPCSTR T_PV > > LPCWSTR T_PV > > Oh my. Net::DNS depending on Win32::API is not really helpful. > He already has a DNS.xs it would be easy to add the IPHelper stuff to this xs. > perl-libwin32 is a bit fat for a perl require line, I'll see what I > can do to remove this cyclic dependency. > Net::DNS is only needed for the old CPAN::Reporter. > The new CPAN::Reporter 2.0 will use Metabase and has a entirely > different set of deps.
Here's a question: Why does the Net::DNS module, which provides only a resolver API, depend on a Win32-related package at all? Cygwin 1.7 provides a BSD compatible resolver API (res_init, res_query, etc) which should be used, just like on Linux. Does the module erroneously treat Cygwin as Windows target? If so, that should be fixed. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
