On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 18:17 +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > On 05/03/07, Tom 'spot' Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > CPAN isn't the only thing: > > > > [spot@localhost perl-5.8.8]$ grep -r "require ExtUtils::MakeMaker" * > > lib/CPAN.pm: require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; > > lib/CPAN.pm: require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; > > lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm:#require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; > > lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm: require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; > > lib/ExtUtils/t/backwards.t:require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; > > lib/ExtUtils/MM.pm:require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; > > utils/perlbug.PL: require ExtUtils::MakeMaker; > > > > so, we'd need to handle ExtUtils::Embed and perlbug too. :/ > > > > perlbug is really the hardest one. I think we really want that to be in > > the base perl package. > > Look closer. EU::MM is only needed by perlbug on... MacOS classic. I > think you can ditch that dependency :) Well, thats a relief. :) So, we'd need: perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker perl-ExtUtils-Embed perl-CPAN (which requires) \perl-Test-Harness >= 2.62 (core perl provided 2.56) We can either entirely extract these components from the core tree before building core perl, or we can just let them build and not package them (the simpler approach, and the one I have initially chosen). But when I did that, I hit problems: /usr/bin/perlcc needs ExtUtils::Embed (circular dep?) /usr/bin/perlivp needs ExtUtils::Installed (circular dep?) /usr/bin/h2xs needs ExtUtils::MakeMaker (circular dep?) /usr/bin/libnetcfg needs ExtUtils::MakeMaker (circular dep?) I don't think there is going to be a good way to pull these items out of core without introducing circular deps. ~spot
