Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

2014-05-06 Thread David Stacey
On 06/05/14 23:02, Warren Young wrote: Assuming no regression, this will be fixed when Cygwin moves formally to Perl 5.18. Indeed - I have already built perl-Text-CSV_XS for perl-5.18.2, and no 'gcc-4' symlink was necessary. Glad you managed to get Text::Xslate built in the end, Dave. --

Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

2014-05-06 Thread Warren Young
On 5/6/2014 15:05, David Stacey wrote: Does the attached help? Thank you, but I wasn't actually trying to make a Cygwin package. I just noticed this while composing my answer to Andrew DeFaria in his mod_perl thread. I tried to build Dancer::Template::Xslate (which depends on Text::Xslate

Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

2014-05-06 Thread Warren Young
On 5/6/2014 14:45, Achim Gratz wrote: You absolutely need to name the symlink "gcc-4.exe". That may have done it. I'd have to do some manual CPAN package uninstalls and reinstalls, testing under various conditions to be sure, and can't be bothered. I can say that I *also* required a g++-4

Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

2014-05-06 Thread David Stacey
On 06/05/14 21:45, Achim Gratz wrote: Warren Young writes: Many moons ago Cygwin "gcc" became GCC 4. Later, Cygwin dropped the "gcc-4" wrapper package. Unfortunately, this means Perl modules that only come in native (XS) form don't compile because perl -V:cc says "gcc-4". I tried creating a s

Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

2014-05-06 Thread David Stacey
On 06/05/2014 20:35, Warren Young wrote: Many moons ago Cygwin "gcc" became GCC 4. Later, Cygwin dropped the "gcc-4" wrapper package. Unfortunately, this means Perl modules that only come in native (XS) form don't compile because perl -V:cc says "gcc-4". I tried creating a symlink from gcc-

Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

2014-05-06 Thread Warren Young
On 5/6/2014 13:35, Warren Young wrote: Unfortunately, this means Perl modules that only come in native (XS) form don't compile because perl -V:cc says "gcc-4". I tried creating a symlink from gcc-4 -> gcc in /bin, but it didn't help. This only affects 32-bit Cygwin, by the way. I tried the S

Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

2014-05-06 Thread Achim Gratz
Warren Young writes: > Many moons ago Cygwin "gcc" became GCC 4. Later, Cygwin dropped the > "gcc-4" wrapper package. > > Unfortunately, this means Perl modules that only come in native (XS) > form don't compile because perl -V:cc says "gcc-4". I tried creating > a symlink from gcc-4 -> gcc in /b

perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

2014-05-06 Thread Warren Young
Many moons ago Cygwin "gcc" became GCC 4. Later, Cygwin dropped the "gcc-4" wrapper package. Unfortunately, this means Perl modules that only come in native (XS) form don't compile because perl -V:cc says "gcc-4". I tried creating a symlink from gcc-4 -> gcc in /bin, but it didn't help. ST