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Re: Building C modules hurts (Score:1)

by Corion (7288)

I feel your pain!

What I found the best approach to automation was to patch the Makefile.PL respectively to ask the module authors to accept the changes. Imager [cpan.org] reads some environment variables in addition to command line switches to the Makefile.PL for example, which makes configuration/installation from the outside far easier, as there is no need to download and patch the files.
A second approach might be to use the distroprefs feature of CPAN [cpan.org], where you can apply your own patches to distributions every
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  by Alias (5735)
  
  I can deal with talking to authors (or taking stuff over).
  
  What annoys me is I don't know what the "right" solution to this stuff is!
  - Re: Building C modules hurts (Score:1)
    
    by fbcit (8419) on 2008.01.23 19:49 (#60478)
    
    Hi, I've been working on getting libxslt compiled for use under Strawberry Perl. I'm stuck right now, but did get beyond pexport by using Dependency Walker. You can read my notes in general here: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:installation:win32:koha_3_win32_installer_pr oject [koha.org] and specifically to XML::LibXSLT here: http://wiki.koha.org/doku.php?id=en:installation:win32:koha_3_win32_installer_pr oject#xmllibxslt [koha.org] Any thoughts and/or suggestions would be greatly appriciated! Regards, Chris
    
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