> On Feb 4, 2020, at 1:03 PM, Todd Rinaldo <to...@cpanel.net> wrote: > > > >> On Jan 31, 2020, at 9:50 AM, gregor herrmann <gre...@debian.org >> <mailto:gre...@debian.org>> wrote: >> >> In my understanding, ExtUtils::HasCompiler is there for situations >> where the presence of a compiler is not guaranteed. > > Right. If I don't do this then I get all sorts of testing failure reports > about systems which don't have a compiler. > >> >> In Debian, we know that we have a compiler when building packages, so >> the check doesn't bring any advantage, and unless I'm missing >> something we could just patch it out. >> > > Given your expertise and control over the build environment, I think its > perfectly reasonable for you to disable the compiler check and let it move > on. > > I don't think it makes sense for me to add an exception to Makefile.PL but if > you have any ideas, patches are welcome. https://github.com/toddr/YAML-Syck > <https://github.com/toddr/YAML-Syck>. > > Possibly we could enhance ExtUtils::HasCompiler to look for a environment > variable that indicates that it is in a build system and coerces it to pass > without a check. I'm speaking with the author about this now. > > Todd > > >
You can monitor this for the enhancement: https://github.com/Leont/extutils-hascompiler/issues/7 <https://github.com/Leont/extutils-hascompiler/issues/7>
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