Re: Perl 5.6.0 Is Here!
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 12:50:54PM -0800, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> I'm delaying the release of the packages a few days so that I can
> release a shared libperl.so with it.
>
> 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? It would cause problems with MakeMaker and
> friends though, so it might not be worth it. I look at is something
> like the old man3 location. (Finally fixed in 5.6.0).
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, it
should never have acquired the "always a bad thing" rep it has
currently. -rpath'ing /usr/lib is generally bad. -rpath'ing app
private directories is often vital.
Dan
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