How to check external library dependencies in 'dynclasses'?
Bernhard Schmalhofer
I'm working on a dynamic PMC that ties into the GNU dbm library,
http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/info/gdbm/gdbm_toc.html.
The implementation is fairly straightforward, and simple test cases are
already working. However I'm not sure about how to check for the
availability of 'libgdbm.so'. If 'libgdbm.so' is not there I do not want
to compile and I want to skip the tests.
I could check for 'libgdbm.so' in the core Parrot configure step. But
this is not nice, as core Parrot shouldn't need to know about funky
extensions.
So the real question is, wether something like 'h2xs', Module::Build,
'extrb' is planned for Parrot.
CU, Bernhard
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