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On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:43:22PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 11:35:02PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> > Writing Makefile.aperl for Pie
> > make -f Makefile.aperl perl
> > Writing perlmain.c
> > cd . && cc -c "-I/usr/local/perl5.8.0/lib/darwin-64all/CORE" \
> > -pipe -fno-common -no-cpp-precomp -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -O3 -g \
> > -DVERSION=\"0.01\" \
> > -DXS_VERSION=\"0.01\" "-I/usr/local/perl5.8.0/lib/darwin-64all/CORE" perlmain.c
> > make[1]: *** No rule to make target `/usr/local/perl5.8.0/lib/darwin-64all/CORE/libperl.a', needed by `perl'. Stop.
> > make: *** [perl] Error 2
> >
> > MakeMaker is looking for libperl.a but I have libperl.dylib. MakeMaker
> > is using $Config{lib_ext} which is .a here. $Config{so} is .dylib.
> > Which is wrong? Config or MakeMaker?
>
> Similar problem on Linux with a Debian built Perl. Do I have to do
> something special when Perl is built to have Makefile.aperl work?
>
> Writing "Makefile.aperl" for this perl
> Warning: /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/CORE/libperl.a not found
> If you're going to build a static perl binary, make sure perl is installed
> otherwise ignore this warning
I wasn't sure. libperl.a installed on my SuSE box at work, but not on
richardc's Debian box. hex says that it's installed by package libperl-dev
(#london.pm seems to know everything)
http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=libperl.a&searchmode=searchfiles&case=insensitive&version=stable&arch=i386
so it looks like the debian perl maintainer has split it out into a separate
package. Presumably the OS X folks have done something similar.
(Seems reasonable to me, given that it's 1.3 Mb of deadweight that 99% of
users will never need), but is there a way to put a hook into MakeMaker to
allow a custom warning on a missing libperl.a? If so we would then make it
easy for the Debian etc maintainers to put in a message "you'll need to
install package $foo" instead of failing as shown above.
Nicholas Clark
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