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Date:      Thu, 03 Sep 1998 08:03:10 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: B CURRENT Build environment (Was: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF?) 
Message-ID:  <199809030603.IAA04377@gratis.grondar.za>

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John Birrell wrote:
> You shouldn't need to specify a path for the libraries in any of the cases
> (aout/elf, static/dynamic) unless you need to put the libraries in a
> special place.

For normal C builds, yes, but there are Makefiles being built by perl
scripts here.

> What is the perl build doing when it "tries quite hard to find libraries
> to link against"?
> 
> Is it somehow trying to second guess what the build environment is?

Correct. On a system with Perl5 installed, look at
ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3).

M
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