perl-after-upgrade

[Anton Berezin]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:39:11PM +0100, Mathieu Arnold wrote:
> +-Le 15/02/2005 22:18 +0100, Anton Berezin a dit :
> | On Mon, Feb 14, 2005 at 04:43:00PM +0100, Hans Lambermont wrote:
> | 
> |> I just ran your perl-after-upgrade script and found one thing that might
> |> be useful for docs addition : vim can be built WITH_PERL
> |> (--enable-perlinterp) it then hardcodes the path to libperl.so like
> |> -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/mach/CORE
> |> which of course bombs when perl is updated.
> | 
> | Alright.  The new version is, as usual, at
> | 
> |    http://people.freebsd.org/~tobez
> | 
> | It incorporates some documentation changes suggested by mat, removes
> | symlinks from the list of files considered for modification, and tries
> | to patch up any binaries in existing perl-dependant packages that link
> | with libperl.so.
> | 
> | Use with care.
> 
> I already asked once or twice, but I don't remember why it's bad to just :
> ldconfig -m /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.6/mach/CORE ?

1. Might break things on 4.X, where there is a "real" /usr/lib/libperl.so
2. This is a larger cludge than patching up the binaries.  :-)

\Anton.
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