cvs commit: ports/lang/perl5.8 Makefile pkg-plist

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:23:11PM +0100, Anton Berezin wrote:

> > as it happens): there was a stale libperl.so in /usr/lib from when
> > perl was in the tree, and a lot of perl modules were picking it up and
> > linking against it, with the result that perl became broken when I
> > cleaned up /usr/lib.
> 
> It should not have happened, since all MakeMaker users (that is, 99.9%
> of perl modules) get the linking information from perl itself, so either
> the modules you mentioned were somehow picking an older perl, or they
> were installed at the time when the older perl was the only perl.

I can't remember the specifics any more..marcus might remember, but
they definitely survived a full rebuild of p5* and continued to link
against /usr/lib/libperl.so.

Kris

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