On Feb 23, 2005, at 6:08 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
For any brave Phalanx folks who wish to target MakeMaker I can point you at
some critically deficient areas of its testing.
1) XS. There is absolutely no testing of XS code. The primary problem is
determining if the user has a working build chain. I think Module::Build
has code to do this and it might be possible to crib from that. Even just
writing the build chain detection code would prove a big help.
Better would be to snark it from ExtUtils::CBuilder, which has a has_compiler() method. One could also look at ExtUtils::ParseXS, which is simply a modularization of xsubpp.
-Ken
