Stopping a Pointless C Compiler Warning

[John M. Gamble]

I don't know which upgrade brought this, but currently when I use Build.PL
(and the resulting Build files) I get (in reverse video no less) the
message:

It looks like you don't have a C compiler on your PATH, so you will not be
able to compile C or XS extension modules. You can install GCC from the
MinGW package using the Perl Package Manager by running:

ppm install MinGW

I've become somewhat numb to it, but it's a completely pointless and
unhelpful message, since this machine I'm working on will never develop
anything in C. I haven't been able to find anything in Module::Build
documentation that tells me how to tell it that this is a pure Perl
module. Can anyone steer me in the right direction?

I'm using ActiveState perl version 5.14.1, and Module::Build version 0.3800.

Thanks,
-john

[Fields, Christopher J]

That message originates from Activestate's ppm; see this link:

http://community.activestate.com/node/7553

chris

Chris Fields
Senior Research Scientist
National Center for Supercomputing Applications
Institute for Genomic Biology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

[John M. Gamble]

On Tue, January 10, 2012 9:16 pm, Fields, Christopher J wrote:
> That message originates from Activestate's ppm; see this link:
>
> http://community.activestate.com/node/7553
>
> chris
>

Thanks. Pity they don't seem to have a solution.