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. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence NANOG makes me want to unplug everything and hide under the bed -- brian d foy