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To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
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Subject: Re: B CURRENT Build environment (Was: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF?) 
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 07:48:19 +0200
From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
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John Birrell wrote:
> Mark Murray wrote:
> > Won't work - The perl5 build is very different.
> 
> I guess I need more information to understand how different it is.

What do you need from me? My makefiles?

> > > 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.

I had no luck with LIBRARY_PATH - it was not set where I used it.

M
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