Re: $Config{ccflags} not set

[gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 13:51:13 +0000, Florian Weimer wrote:

> > But from the build log, I can see that $Config{ccflags} is apparently
> > expanded to nothing at all.  Is there any other way I can get the flags
> > I need to stuff into CCFLAGS?
> It turned that this was caused by a missing "use Config;".  Kind of
> obvious, but only in retrospect.

Probably combined with a missing "use strict;" :)

#v+
$ perl -E 'say $Config{ccflags};' ; echo $?

0
$ perl -E 'use strict; say $Config{ccflags};' ; echo $?
Global symbol "%Config" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.
255
$
#v-

Cheers,
gregor (who had thought about the mail a bit 
        without thinking of "use Config;"; 
        indeed "obvious only in retrospect")
 
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