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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:12, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.

All I did to fix this problem for fenner was to rebuild Perl by itself. 
I didn't touch any of the modules.  After that, fenner's script worked
again.

Joe

> 
> Kris
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
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