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

David Stacey drstacey@tiscali.co.uk
Tue May 6 21:05:00 GMT 2014


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-4 -> gcc in /bin, but it didn't help.
>
> STC: cpanm Text::Xslate

This is how I build perl-Text-CSV_XS - I create a symbolic link as you 
described. Using cygport I was able to produce a Xslate DLL, but I 
couldn't run the test suite as I'm missing many dependencies.

Does the attached help?

Dave.

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CPAN_AUTHOR=GFUJI
inherit perl

NAME="perl-Text-Xslate"
VERSION=3.2.4
RELEASE=1
CATEGORY="Perl"
SUMMARY="Scalable template engine."
DESCRIPTION="Xslate is a template engine, tuned for persistent applications, safe as an HTML generator, and with rich features."

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