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Date:      Mon, 10 Nov 2003 14:12:18 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        marcus@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/lang/perl5.8 Makefile pkg-plist
Message-ID:  <20031110221218.GA15154@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031110192311.GC31579@heechee.tobez.org>
References:  <20031110183803.GA13613@xor.obsecurity.org> <20031110192311.GC31579@heechee.tobez.org>

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On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:23:11PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:

> > as it happens): there was a stale libperl.so in /usr/lib from when
> > perl was in the tree, and a lot of perl modules were picking it up and
> > linking against it, with the result that perl became broken when I
> > cleaned up /usr/lib.
>=20
> It should not have happened, since all MakeMaker users (that is, 99.9%
> of perl modules) get the linking information from perl itself, so either
> the modules you mentioned were somehow picking an older perl, or they
> were installed at the time when the older perl was the only perl.

I can't remember the specifics any more..marcus might remember, but
they definitely survived a full rebuild of p5* and continued to link
against /usr/lib/libperl.so.

Kris


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