From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 2 23:04:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22519 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 23:04:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) 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 XAA22513 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 23:04:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Received: from grondar.za (IDENT:zI3XKbjMyEUSczsTEWBEiiQ5zHpgG2nu@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gratis.grondar.za (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA04377; Thu, 3 Sep 1998 08:03:11 +0200 (SAST) (envelope-from mark@grondar.za) Message-Id: <199809030603.IAA04377@gratis.grondar.za> To: John Birrell cc: jdp@polstra.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: B CURRENT Build environment (Was: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF?) Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 08:03:10 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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