I'm sorry, I worked through it but forgot to post what the
solutions were, for anyone following this as a thread in the
future. Restating my Qs with As:
Q: How do I block the optimization from the Perl build being
included the cc command? I would prefer to leave it in
the optimization variable in Config for future installs.
A: After the
$build = Module::Build->new( ...operands... );
one can (just for this build not permanently) override
parameters under which perl was built (from Config).
The one I wanted, to override the optimization in the C
compiler used by perl, came out to
$build->config(optimize => $opt);
There are lots of other Config() items that one can apply
this to. I was just spoiled because ExtUtils::MakeMaker
had an explicit
OPTIMIZE => $opt,
in its WriteMakefile() operands.
Q2: What's the easiest way to communicate something from
the Build.PL code to test code?
A2: Similar to the above, after the ->new() I did
my $cmd = $build->prompt(
"Enter a shell command to be run when the sky is falling:");
if ($cmd) {$build->config_data('cmd' => $cmd)};
Test code can access $cmd with:
$cmd = Module::Build->current->config_data('cmd');
Code that will run after installation of My::Module can access
$cmd with:
use My::Module::ConfigData; # this gets created during the install
$cmd = My::Module::ConfigData->config('cmd');
There's a parallel capability that communicates booleans
called feature(), but since booleans are a subset of
GP values, I suspect features() will be less popular
than config_data.
The web pages Module::Build::API and Module::Build::Cookbook
are where one can learn good stuff like this.
Best Regards to all,
cmac
On Feb 10, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
# from cr...@animalhead.com
# on Sunday 07 February 2010 23:25:
I can
add the optimization I want to the extra_compiler_flags parameter,
but the optimization from the Perl build is included in the cc
command also. I feel sorry for the compiler which is told to
optimize two different ways...
Passing options to ExtUtils::CBuilder from the Build.PL needs some
work.
I'm sure there are about a dozen hacked-up build classes on the CPAN
which are trying to work with this in one way or another.
Module::Build needs some way to give authors a lot more rope, but in a
way that will allows it and EU::CBuilder to change. Test cases and
patches are most welcomed.
--Eric
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