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Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:23:16 -0800
From: Stas Bekman <stas@stason.org>
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To: Randy Kobes <randy@theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca>
Cc: "Edward J. Sabol" <sabol@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov>,
	apreq-dev@httpd.apache.org, Gerald Richter <richter@ecos.de>
Subject: Re: libapreq2-2.02-dev build problems with Perl 5.6.1
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Gerald, can you please fix ExtUtils-XSBuilder to play nice with CPAN? See the 
suggestions from Randy below. Thank you.

Randy Kobes wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
> 
>>Randy Kobes wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Edward J. Sabol wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Using Apache 2.0.48, mod_perl 1.99_11, Perl 5.6.1, Red Hat
>>>>7.3, I encountered the following problems building
>>>>libapreq2-2.02-dev:
>>>>
>>>>1. Well, first I had to manually install ExtUtils::XSBuilder 0.23. Why
>>>>  doesn't CPAN.pm see this module? It claims no such module exists
>>>>  and won't get/make/test/install it, but search.cpan.org
>>>>  can find it easily enough.
>>>>  Anyway, this was more of an inconvience than a problem, but I
>>>>  thought I'd mention it.
>>>
>>>ExtUtils/XSBuilder.pm doesn't get indexed by PAUSE as a
>>>module (it doesn't have a package declaration, among other
>>>things). From the CPAN.pm shell, try installing
>>>ExtUtils::XSBuilder::WrapXS.
>>
>>So how about changing the code to require
>>ExtUtils::XSBuilder::WrapXS? Where does $VERSION reside? in
>>ExtUtils::XSBuilder? or ExtUtils::XSBuilder::WrapXS
> 
> 
> It's an unusual situation - the version (currently at 0.23)
> is defined in ExtUtils::XSBuilder, but the sole purpose of
> ExtUtils/XSBuilder.pm is to define $VERSION = 0.23; it
> consists of
> =================================================
> 
> 
> $VERSION = 0.23 ;
> =================================================
> Hence, PAUSE doesn't recognize it as a module.
> Something like ExtUtils::XSBuilder::WrapXS could be
> required instead, as PAUSE does recognize that as a module.
> Another option is to use an XSBuilder.pm as
> =================================================
> package ExtUtils::XSBuilder;
> use strict;
> use vars qw($VERSION);
> $VERSION = 0.23;
> 
> 1;
> __END__
> 
> =head1 NAME
> 
> ExtUtils::XSBuilder - Automatic XS glue code generation
> 
> =================================================
> with other pod sections as desired - this I think will be
> picked up by PAUSE, and also can then be continued to be
> used to define the distribution version. It's also more
> intuitive to install "ExtUtils::XSBuilder" within CPAN.pm to
> install the ExtUtils-XSBuilder distribution.
> 


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