On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 11:05:59AM +0300, Shlomi Fish wrote:

> The problem is that the shared library was found, but the development package
> is not present, so the external headers cannot be found and I'm getting a
> failure.
> 
> My question is: using Makefile.PL and ExtUtils::MakeMaker - how can I detect
> for the non-existence of these headers on the system, and if so - abort?

Devel::CheckLib

It comes with a script that makes it easy to bundle with your distro so
that you can use it from Makefile.PL without it having to already be
installed on the user's system.

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