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Re: Perl 5.6.0 Is Here!



According to Daniel Jacobowitz:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 12:50:54PM -0800, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> > A question that came up once before.  Would it be better to put
> > libperl.so in /usr/lib [...]
> 
> I would say leave it in CORE.  Use -rpath to get the libperl.so you
> want - this is EXACTLY the sort of situation rpath was designed for...

What he said.  Perl's upstream maintainers have toyed with putting
libperl.so in $(prefix)/lib, but they (we!) have learned not to try.
-- 
Chip Salzenberg              - a.k.a. -              <chip@valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
    but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early."  // MST3K


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