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Date:      Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:55:25 +1000 (EST)
From:      John Birrell  <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
To:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray)
Cc:        jb@cimlogic.com.au, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: B CURRENT Build environment (Was: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF?)
Message-ID:  <199809030555.PAA01282@cimlogic.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <199809030537.HAA03983@gratis.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Sep 3, 98 07:37:13 am"

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Mark Murray wrote:
> Won't work - The perl5 build is very different.

I guess I need more information to understand how different it is.

> 
> > to build just perl in the lib-tools target of Makefile.inc1, but not the
> > other perl subdirectories (which are the ones that try to _run_ perl).
> 
> I can run perl very early on (and I do, it its "miniperl" incarnation).
> 
> I still need to be able to tell the "real" perl and its modules where
> the libraries are for a link - and that is the big sweat...

LIBRARY_PATH does that. It is either not set and defaults to /usr/lib or
set by the build system to where the libraries are. The trick is that
you shouldn't try to execute a dynamically linked perl that you've
just built, but not installed.

-- 
John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/
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