Makefile does not test for compiler availability

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Transcribed verbatim from CPAN RT#74705, warts and all.

Sun Feb 05 14:26:01 2012 ribasushi [...] leporine.io - Ticket created
Subject: Makefile does not test for compiler availability

As already mentioned in
http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.617/lib/DBI/PurePerl.pm#INSTALLATION
the Make3file should simply skip all xs code building if a compiler is
not available. A well working implementation for such a check can be
found here:
https://metacpan.org/source/ADAMK/List-MoreUtils-0.33/Makefile.PL#L81

Sun Feb 05 14:47:29 2012 ribasushi [...] leporine.io - Dependency by #74706: [Meta] Necessary milestones for fat-packable DBIx::Class added

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Tue Feb 21 22:12:26 2012 bitcard.org [...] perl.tgape.org - Correspondence added
From: [email protected]

On Sun Feb 05 14:26:01 2012, RIBASUSHI wrote:

As already mentioned in
http://search.cpan.org/~timb/DBI-1.617/lib/DBI/PurePerl.pm#INSTALLATION
the Make3file should simply skip all xs code building if a compiler is
not available. A well working implementation for such a check can be
found here:
https://metacpan.org/source/ADAMK/List-MoreUtils-0.33/Makefile.PL#L81

This would also require a code update to the perl modules so that they
eval bootstrapping and fail over to loading pure perl even if the
DBI_PUREPERL environment variable is not set. I'm not saying that's a
big obstacle, just that it would need to be done as well.

Tue Feb 21 22:12:27 2012 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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Mon Nov 19 18:16:27 2012 TIMB [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

This isn't a priority for me. I'd happily take a patch though.

Mon Nov 19 18:16:28 2012 TIMB [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'