Bug#186778: ExtUtils::Embed problem when libperl-dev not installed

[Dominic Hargreaves]

On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 06:51:23PM +0100, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 10:55:49AM +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > There's the argument that a normal system should have all or nothing
> > of the upstream perl distribution installed. Although we're sort of
> > violating that already with the missing libperl.so symlink, a missing
> > ExtUtils::Embed is a somewhat clearer case of "crippling perl."
> > 
> > TBH, after the last time I tried to split out the dual lived modules [1]
> > I don't have much enthusiasm in pursuing such changes.
> > 
> > I'm slightly inclined to keep the status quo with ExtUtils::EMbed until
> > (if?) things change with the dual lived modules, but YMMV.
> 
> Right, yes, I understand your position. In that case the other
> possible fix for this bug would be to patch ExtUtils::Embed to detect
> the missing libperl-dev files (this is not a high priority item).

Note that we already patch the documentation noting that libperl-dev
is needed on Debian, debian/extutils_hacks.diff, and we should keep
that.

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