X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2010 16:07:05 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: perl: Net::DNS requires Win32::IPHelper Message-ID: <20100823140705.GG6726@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <1282535618.6888.51.camel@YAAKOV04> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Aug 23 15:36, Reini Urban wrote: > 2010/8/23 Yaakov (Cygwin/X) : > > Reini, > > > > The Net::DNS module, which you ship with perl, depends on perl-libwin32 > > (packaged separately) and Win32::IPHelper, the latter of which depends > > on Win32::API and enum modules.  Win32::API needs a custom typemap file > > in order to compile on Cygwin, which AFAICS should be: > > > > TYPEMAP > > HINSTANCE   T_PTR > > LPCSTR      T_PV > > LPCWSTR     T_PV > > Oh my. Net::DNS depending on Win32::API is not really helpful. > He already has a DNS.xs it would be easy to add the IPHelper stuff to this xs. > perl-libwin32 is a bit fat for a perl require line, I'll see what I > can do to remove this cyclic dependency. > Net::DNS is only needed for the old CPAN::Reporter. > The new CPAN::Reporter 2.0 will use Metabase and has a entirely > different set of deps. Here's a question: Why does the Net::DNS module, which provides only a resolver API, depend on a Win32-related package at all? Cygwin 1.7 provides a BSD compatible resolver API (res_init, res_query, etc) which should be used, just like on Linux. Does the module erroneously treat Cygwin as Windows target? If so, that should be fixed. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple