But, as others have pointed out, if the check fails the module is extremely likely to lead to a crash in the interpreter, immediately or eventually

Yes, and some of us value having all that protective cotton wool wrapped around us.
But I get annoyed when it stops me from running some small piece of Inline::C code that would (I believe) have executed perfectly well if the failing handshake check had not killed it.

Anyway, it's not worth the fuss.
If there was some easy way to build a perl such that the handshake checks were avoided, then I would investigate further.
But there apparently isn't ... so I won't ;-)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^4: How do I build perl on Windows such that all "handshake" checks are avoided ? by syphilis
in thread How do I build perl on Windows such that all "handshake" checks are avoided ? by syphilis

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