Re: ExtUtils::PkgConfig test failures on OpenBSD

[Brian Manning <elspicyjack gmail com>]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:34 AM, Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch gmx de> wrote:
> > Given the info about the next release, is the noise (test failed
> > notices from cpantesters) acceptable to people until the next release
> > of OpenBSD, or do you want a quick release of EU::PC with SKIP blocks
> > on OpenBSD for the max-version tests, and then do another release of
> > EU::PC in May after the next OpenBSD release has been verified on
> > cpantesters?
>
>
> Could you use the version number of the pkg-config replacement to check
> whether the tests should be skipped?  Then the SKIP block wouldn't have to
> be removed later.  That's how, say, Gtk2 handles newer gtk+ versions.

I think that will work, but I'll double check in their CVS web tree
just in case.  I know that they change the --version string that's
reported from the Perl version so it matches what the current release
of the pkg-config binary is.


Thanks,

Brian