Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 08:03:10 +0200 From: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: B CURRENT Build environment (Was: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF?) Message-ID: <199809030603.IAA04377@gratis.grondar.za>
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John Birrell wrote: > You shouldn't need to specify a path for the libraries in any of the cases > (aout/elf, static/dynamic) unless you need to put the libraries in a > special place. For normal C builds, yes, but there are Makefiles being built by perl scripts here. > What is the perl build doing when it "tries quite hard to find libraries > to link against"? > > Is it somehow trying to second guess what the build environment is? Correct. On a system with Perl5 installed, look at ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3). M -- Mark Murray Join the anti-SPAM movement: http://www.cauce.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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