I read the man page and I tried searching, but either my search skills have significantly deteriorated or search engines have, because I have trouble now finding any technical answers on google/etc regardless of the question.

With MakeMaker, one can set the CFLAGS with OPTIMIZE="whatever" as an environmental variable when running perl Makefile.PL

It then gets put in the generated Makefile

With perl Build.PL which does not use make I can not figure out how to do the equivalent.

It must be simple, I just can't find it.

Thank you for suggestions.

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I decided to open an account here after seeing so many posts, all with the same characteristics:

• Corinna is great
• It will happen
• This post is at least 3 years old

What’s going on? Why is implementation so slow? What can be done to help?

I see many discussions and many people holding things back with condescending arguments and fear of change. It’s clear (and if it’s not clear to the kind reader, then I think there’s a problem with you) that Perl is in trouble and dying from a lack of new developers. One of the main reasons is the absence of a decent object system, and a native one, not a module.

So much has been said about Corinna, so much work has been done, and yes, it’s great as it is, but it’s experimental. Over the past year, we’ve gained what — new writers? Where’s everything that was planned? Destruct blocks, custom constructors, custom readers and writers, :common, etc.

To make it popular, we need it. We need more people using it, and for that, we need it in the language — not as an experimental feature. So much time has been invested in decision-making, but no language is perfect. We just need it. It doesn’t have to be perfect.

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