From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 2 14:20:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05831 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:20:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from austin.polstra.com (austin.polstra.com [206.213.73.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05825 for ; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:20:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@austin.polstra.com) Received: from austin.polstra.com (jdp@localhost) by austin.polstra.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA25182; Wed, 2 Sep 1998 14:18:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Message-Id: <199809022118.OAA25182@austin.polstra.com> To: John Birrell cc: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: B CURRENT Build environment (Was: Re: Why no ldconfig for ELF?) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 03 Sep 1998 07:26:10 +1000." <199809022126.HAA29947@cimlogic.com.au> Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 14:18:43 -0700 From: John Polstra Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > WORLDTMP is private to the `make world' build system which is > private to the top level makefiles. No other makefiles should know > about these. They should rely on the environment variables that the > tools naturally look for. The problem, as I understand it, is that the new perl has to run as part of the build process. It has some dynamically loaded modules that aren't installed yet, and that aren't in any of the standard WORLDTMP library locations. Mark needs a way for the dynamic linker to be able to find those modules. Did I get that right, Mark? John P. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message