Re: [perl #38124] [TODO] build - header file detection w/o perl5

On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 06:44:47PM -0800, James Keenan via RT wrote:
> On Sun Jan 01 19:09:51 2006, [email protected] wrote:
> > auto::headers uses the Config module to detect installed header files.
> > It's ok to get default values and the arch name from Config but it's not
> > OK to depend on it for probing the system as the Configure code will
> > liked be compiled down to PIR someday so it can be executed by
> > miniparrot and systems that don't have perl5 installed.
> > 
> 
> We've long recognized that we will eventually have to jettison our
> reliance on Perl 5's Config module, not just for header detection but
> for all of our configuration probes.  But that's a post-1.0 project.

Are we closing all bugs for things that aren't going to be part of a 1.0
release?

-J

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