perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

[Warren Young]

Many moons ago Cygwin "gcc" became GCC 4.  Later, Cygwin dropped the 
"gcc-4" wrapper package.

Unfortunately, this means Perl modules that only come in native (XS) 
form don't compile because perl -V:cc says "gcc-4".  I tried creating a 
symlink from gcc-4 -> gcc in /bin, but it didn't help.

STC: cpanm Text::Xslate

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Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

[Achim Gratz]

Warren Young writes:
> Many moons ago Cygwin "gcc" became GCC 4.  Later, Cygwin dropped the
> "gcc-4" wrapper package.
>
> Unfortunately, this means Perl modules that only come in native (XS)
> form don't compile because perl -V:cc says "gcc-4".  I tried creating
> a symlink from gcc-4 -> gcc in /bin, but it didn't help.

Yes, I've posted about this some time ago.  You absolutely need to name
the symlink "gcc-4.exe".  You could also patch out the EXEEXT appendage
that makes that particular check fail when it encounters a symlink of
just "gcc-4", but renaming the symlink is easier.


Regards,
Achim.
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Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

[David Stacey]

On 06/05/14 21:45, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Warren Young writes:
>> Many moons ago Cygwin "gcc" became GCC 4.  Later, Cygwin dropped the
>> "gcc-4" wrapper package.
>>
>> Unfortunately, this means Perl modules that only come in native (XS)
>> form don't compile because perl -V:cc says "gcc-4".  I tried creating
>> a symlink from gcc-4 -> gcc in /bin, but it didn't help.
> Yes, I've posted about this some time ago.  You absolutely need to name
> the symlink "gcc-4.exe".

This is not my experience. My link is called 'gcc-4' pointing to 'gcc'; 
there is no '.exe' extension in either source or destination. This gets 
XS modules compiling for me.

Dave.


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Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

[Warren Young]

On 5/6/2014 14:45, Achim Gratz wrote:
>
> You absolutely need to name
> the symlink "gcc-4.exe".

That may have done it.  I'd have to do some manual CPAN package 
uninstalls and reinstalls, testing under various conditions to be sure, 
and can't be bothered.

I can say that I *also* required a g++-4 -> g++ symlink.  I made it with 
.exe, just to be safe.

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Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

[Warren Young]

On 5/6/2014 13:35, Warren Young wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, this means Perl modules that only come in native (XS)
> form don't compile because perl -V:cc says "gcc-4".  I tried creating a
> symlink from gcc-4 -> gcc in /bin, but it didn't help.

This only affects 32-bit Cygwin, by the way.  I tried the STC on 64-bit 
Cygwin where perl -V:cc says "gcc", and it built and installed the 
module, and the module works.

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Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

[David Stacey]

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On 06/05/2014 20:35, Warren Young wrote:
> Many moons ago Cygwin "gcc" became GCC 4.  Later, Cygwin dropped the 
> "gcc-4" wrapper package.
>
> Unfortunately, this means Perl modules that only come in native (XS) 
> form don't compile because perl -V:cc says "gcc-4".  I tried creating 
> a symlink from gcc-4 -> gcc in /bin, but it didn't help.
>
> STC: cpanm Text::Xslate

This is how I build perl-Text-CSV_XS - I create a symbolic link as you 
described. Using cygport I was able to produce a Xslate DLL, but I 
couldn't run the test suite as I'm missing many dependencies.

Does the attached help?

Dave.


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CPAN_AUTHOR=GFUJI
inherit perl

NAME="perl-Text-Xslate"
VERSION=3.2.4
RELEASE=1
CATEGORY="Perl"
SUMMARY="Scalable template engine."
DESCRIPTION="Xslate is a template engine, tuned for persistent applications, safe as an HTML generator, and with rich features."


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Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

[Warren Young]

On 5/6/2014 15:05, David Stacey wrote:
>
> Does the attached help?

Thank you, but I wasn't actually trying to make a Cygwin package.  I 
just noticed this while composing my answer to Andrew DeFaria in his 
mod_perl thread.  I tried to build Dancer::Template::Xslate (which 
depends on Text::Xslate) and it failed, so I thought I'd report it, 
hoping it would give the Perl maintainer incentive to update the package.

...which turns out to not be necessary, since Reini Urban's 5.18.2 
32-bit test build doesn't say "gcc-4" any more.  Assuming no regression, 
this will be fixed when Cygwin moves formally to Perl 5.18.

So never mind. :)

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Re: perl -V:cc still says "gcc-4"

[David Stacey]

On 06/05/14 23:02, Warren Young wrote:
> Assuming no regression, this will be fixed when Cygwin moves formally 
> to Perl 5.18. 

Indeed - I have already built perl-Text-CSV_XS for perl-5.18.2, and no 
'gcc-4' symlink was necessary.

Glad you managed to get Text::Xslate built in the end,

Dave.


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