--- AnyEvent/constants.pl.PL	2010/10/11 03:41:39	1.6
+++ AnyEvent/constants.pl.PL	2012/03/27 23:47:57	1.11
@@ -2,34 +2,58 @@
 
 # this file is unfortunately only executed at Makefile.PL time
 
-use Socket;
+use Config;
+
+# when built as part of perl, these are not available
+BEGIN { eval "use Socket ()" }
+BEGIN { eval "use Fcntl  ()" }
+BEGIN { eval "use POSIX  ()" }
 
 open my $fh, ">lib/AnyEvent/constants.pl"
    or die "lib/AnyEvent/constants.pl: $_[0]\n";
 
 my $oldstdout = select $fh;
 
+print "# automatically generated from constants.pl.PL for perl $] built for $Config{archname}\n";
+
 sub i($$) {
-   print "sub $_[0] () { ", $_[1]*1, " }\n";
+   print "sub $_[0](){", $_[1]*1, "}\n";
 }
 
 sub n($$) {
-   print "sub $_[0] () { ", (defined $_[1] ? $_[1]*1 : "undef"), " }\n";
+   print "sub $_[0](){", (defined $_[1] ? $_[1]*1 : "undef"), "}\n";
 }
 
 print "package AnyEvent;\n";
 
 our $WIN32 = $^O =~ /mswin32/i;
 
+# used a lot
 i CYGWIN => $^O =~ /cygwin/i;
 i WIN32  => $WIN32;
 
-use Fcntl ();
+# add these purely to avoid loading Fcntl, which is slow and bloated.
+
+i F_SETFD    => eval { Fcntl::F_SETFD() } || 2;
+i F_SETFL    => eval { Fcntl::F_SETFL() } || 4;
+i O_NONBLOCK => eval { Fcntl::O_NONBLOCK() } || 04000;
+i FD_CLOEXEC => eval { Fcntl::FD_CLOEXEC() } || 1;
+
+print "package AnyEvent::Base;\n";
 
-i F_SETFL    => eval { Fcntl::F_SETFL() };
-i F_SETFD    => eval { Fcntl::F_SETFD() };
-i O_NONBLOCK => eval { Fcntl::O_NONBLOCK() };
-i FD_CLOEXEC => eval { Fcntl::FD_CLOEXEC() };
+# add these purely to avoid loading POSIX, which is slow and bloated.
+
+i WNOHANG    => eval { POSIX::WNOHANG() } || 1;
+
+print "package AnyEvent::IO;\n";
+
+i O_RDONLY   => eval { Fcntl::O_RDONLY() } || 0;
+i O_WRONLY   => eval { Fcntl::O_WRONLY() } || 1;
+i O_RDWR     => eval { Fcntl::O_RDWR  () } || 2;
+i O_CREAT    => eval { Fcntl::O_CREAT () } || 64;
+i O_EXCL     => eval { Fcntl::O_EXCL  () } || 128;
+i O_TRUNC    => eval { Fcntl::O_TRUNC () } || 512;
+i O_APPEND   => eval { Fcntl::O_APPEND() } || 1024;
 
 print "package AnyEvent::Util;\n";
 
@@ -47,17 +71,18 @@
 
 my $af_inet6;
 
-$af_inet6 ||= eval {                  Socket::AF_INET6 () };
-$af_inet6 ||= eval { require Socket6; Socket6::AF_INET6() };
+$af_inet6 ||= eval {                  Socket::AF_INET6 () }; # where it should be
+$af_inet6 ||= eval { require Socket6; Socket6::AF_INET6() }; # where it actually is ...
 
-# uhoh
+# ... or isn't, because nobody has it installed
 $af_inet6 ||= 10 if $^O =~ /linux/;
 $af_inet6 ||= 23 if $^O =~ /cygwin/i;
 $af_inet6 ||= 23 if AnyEvent::WIN32;
 $af_inet6 ||= 24 if $^O =~ /openbsd|netbsd/;
 $af_inet6 ||= 28 if $^O =~ /freebsd/;
 
-#TODO: WSAxxx, EDOM/ESPIPE
+#TODO: EDOM/ESPIPE
+#TODO: maybe move socket stuff to Socket::?
 
 i _AF_INET6     => $af_inet6;
 #i AF_UNIX      => Socket::AF_UNIX ();
@@ -69,6 +94,8 @@
 #i SO_OOBINLINE => Socket::SO_OOBINLINE ();
 #i IPPROTO_TCP  => Socket::IPPROTO_TCP ();
 
+print "package AnyEvent::Socket;\n";
+
 # more hardcoded os-specific constants - none
 # of these are available via any known module, but we
 # are forward-looking and try Socket:: anyways.