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Re: Perl 5.6.0 Is Here!



On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:53:48PM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
>According to Darren/Torin/Who Ever...:
>> A question that came up once before.  Would it be better to put
>> libperl.so in /usr/lib considering that our Perl binaries aren't
>> actually linked with it?

This would have the advantage that the standard shlibdeps mechanisms
would work.

It does however cause problems if you include libperl.a in archlib/CORE
(since the default ldopts includes that directory before /usr/lib).

>Well, I think we actually _should_ ship a /usr/bin/perl-5.6-shared
>binary.  Otherwise, you don't have any way for ...
>
>> ... MakeMaker and friends ...
>
>... to find the headers and library and ccflags etc.  Shoot, you could
>even make perl-5.6-shared a low-priority alternative for perl.

All that stuff comes from Config.pm, so shipping a shared binary won't
help.  You need to include Config.pm from the shared build in -base.

Regards,
-- 
Brendan O'Dea                                        bod@compusol.com.au
Compusol Pty. Limited                  (NSW, Australia)  +61 2 9809 0133


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