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Often Perl modules are written to wrap functionallity found in existing C headers, libraries, or to use OS-specific features. It is useful in the Build.PL or Makefile.PL file to check for the existance of these requirements before attempting to actually build the module. needed for upcoming p5-POE update from wen heping with tweaks by me ok sthen@
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Often Perl modules are written to wrap functionallity found in existing
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C headers, libraries, or to use OS-specific features. It is useful in
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the Build.PL or Makefile.PL file to check for the existance of these
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requirements before attempting to actually build the module.
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Objects in this class provide an extension around ExtUtils::CBuilder to
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simplify the creation of a .c file, compiling, linking and running it,
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to test if a certain feature is present.
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