Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] perl-module.class: Enable EAPI=7 support
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:53:20
Message-Id: 20190814225304.44dd7c2b@katipo2.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] perl-module.class: Enable EAPI=7 support by James Le Cuirot
1 On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 10:16:57 +0100
2 James Le Cuirot <chewi@g.o> wrote:
3
4 > Yes, I thought that was probably the case. Python is more forgiving in
5 > this regard.
6
7 In perls case, some of that unforgivingness is upstream dev's stuffing
8 custom logic into Makefile.PL that calls "die", when EUMM will
9 automatically warn anyway, even if nothing in the build process will
10 *actually* require the dependencies present until it runs src_test. But
11 that's just par for 'we have to patch upstream anyway to not be silly'