From owner-cvs-all Wed Sep 16 23:04:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from daemon@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA25057 for cvs-all-outgoing; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:04:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all) Received: from gratis.grondar.za (gratis.grondar.za [196.7.18.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA24986; Wed, 16 Sep 1998 23:04:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (IDENT:vBw4qP8CeLaQL6iFEJvv+RAUTDxx4E5y@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA03554; Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:03:20 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199809170603.IAA03554@gratis.grondar.za> To: John Birrell cc: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no, markm@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/perl5/hints freebsd.sh In-Reply-To: Your message of " Thu, 17 Sep 1998 15:55:46 +1000." <199809170555.PAA08032@cimlogic.com.au> References: <199809170555.PAA08032@cimlogic.com.au> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 08:03:17 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk John Birrell wrote: > Mark Murray wrote: > > Could you please do a "file DynaLoader.a" on the appropriate DynaLoader.a. > > You've played this game before! It's aout, not elf: :-) > The `ar cr' command doesn't have a path, so it should be getting the > objformat relative one from the path set by the make. This implies that > OBJFORMAT has been overridden to aout somehow instead of following what > the build environment has set. This is where I start passing the hat around for a contract on the Perl5 developers' heads. Grrr. They have built a twisty little maze of interdependant scripts that is _nasty_ to unravel. These scripts are riddled with path searchers and other crap that overrides the build environment. I'll get this one. M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org