Tom Lane wrote:
> A more radical solution is to remove ppport.h from our distribution
> entirely, and have the Makefile generate it at build time, using that
> same little bit of script you showed. Or is Devel::PPPort not part of
> the standard Perl distribution?
>
>
>
It is, but this misses the point. You want to use the latest ppport.h
even when building with earlier perls.
The man page says:
just take the most recent copy of ppport.h that you can find (e.g. by generating it with the latest
"Devel::PPPort"
release from CPAN), copy it into your project, adjust your project to use it, and distribute the header along
withyour module.
We are using ppport.h correctly - we're just a bit out of date, that's all.
cheers
andrew