re.pm will load under miniperl, so don't hard-code its values into ParseXS

(There's special-case code in the core to make re.pm available early as
lib/re.pm, as it's needed by other modules in the XS toolchain, so we don't need
a special case and attendant fragility in ExtUtils::ParseXS)

diff --git a/ext/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/ParseXS.pm b/ext/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/ParseXS.pm
index 3fa4cc0..93bca09 100644 (file)
--- a/ext/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/ParseXS.pm
+++ b/ext/ExtUtils-ParseXS/lib/ExtUtils/ParseXS.pm
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ my(@XSStack); # Stack of conditionals and INCLUDEs
 my($XSS_work_idx, $cpp_next_tmp);
 
 use vars qw($VERSION);
-$VERSION = '2.2002';
+$VERSION = '2.2003';
 
 use vars qw(%input_expr %output_expr $ProtoUsed @InitFileCode $FH $proto_re $Overload $errors $Fallback
            $cplusplus $hiertype $WantPrototypes $WantVersionChk $except $WantLineNumbers
@@ -210,7 +210,9 @@ sub process_file {
   $size = qr[,\s* (??{ $bal }) ]x; # Third arg (to setpvn)
 
   foreach my $key (keys %output_expr) {
-    BEGIN { $^H |= 0x00200000 }; # Equivalent to: use re 'eval', but hardcoded so we can compile re.xs
+    # We can still bootstrap compile 're', because in code re.pm is available to
+    # miniperl, and does not attempt to load the XS code.
+    use re 'eval';
 
     my ($t, $with_size, $arg, $sarg) =
       ($output_expr{$key} =~

diff --git a/ext/re/re.pm b/ext/re/re.pm
index 54d504f..742a018 100644 (file)
--- a/ext/re/re.pm
+++ b/ext/re/re.pm
@@ -23,11 +23,6 @@ my %bitmask = (
 # - File::Basename contains a literal for 'taint' as a fallback.  If
 # taint is changed here, File::Basename must be updated as well.
 #
-# - ExtUtils::ParseXS uses a hardcoded 
-# BEGIN { $^H |= 0x00200000 } 
-# in it to allow re.xs to be built. So if 'eval' is changed here then
-# ExtUtils::ParseXS must be changed as well.
-#
 # *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING *** WARNING ***
 
 sub setcolor {