From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 2 22:43:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA19283 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:43:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cimlogic.com.au (cimlog.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.51.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA19278 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:43:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jb@cimlogic.com.au) Received: (from jb@localhost) by cimlogic.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.7) id PAA01282; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:55:25 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jb) From: John Birrell Message-Id: <199809030555.PAA01282@cimlogic.com.au> Subject: Re: B CURRENT Build environment (Was: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF?) In-Reply-To: <199809030537.HAA03983@gratis.grondar.za> from Mark Murray at "Sep 3, 98 07:37:13 am" To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1998 15:55:25 +1000 (EST) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message