Date: Sun, 06 Sep 1998 09:35:48 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF build problems with perl5 Message-ID: <199809060735.JAA23916@gratis.grondar.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of " Sat, 05 Sep 1998 08:19:12 %2B1000." <199809042219.IAA12946@cimlogic.com.au> References: <199809042219.IAA12946@cimlogic.com.au>
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John Birrell wrote: > The problem is that perl5 configures itself for a particular library > path (libpth in it's configure) at build time and appends extra search > paths from LD_LIBRARY_PATH at runtime. If perl5 is executed during a > `make world', it will definititely use the wrong path to load shared > objects. Our build system goes to a lot of trouble to set the paths > so that tools like ld DTRT. AFAIK there is no way to tell perl5, in > the amount of detail required, how to behave at runtime. These ways are present - they are just messy. If you are doing a cross- compile, they are _really_ messy. > This is the problem that Mark Murray has been having with the integration > of the contribified perl5 into the main tree. I believe it is a software > design issue that should be solved in the perl DynaLoader code before we > adopt perl5 for main stream use. I hope to have this problem solved by the end of today. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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