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Nicholas Clark
Date:
March 14, 2007 06:47
Subject:
Re: [Probably Bug] DynaLoader.a is not Present in maintperl and Breaks the Compilation of Website Meta Language
Message ID:
20070314134704.GR5748@plum.flirble.org
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 12:35:08PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> Did anyone notice this mesage? Is it a real bug? Should I file it to
> rt.perl.org? Is there a workaround?

  yes,
  not sure (hence why I didn't reply),
  probably not worth it as the bug report ends up on this list too,
  and not that I'm aware of

respectively.

> On 3/13/07, Shlomi Fish <shlomif@iglu.org.il> wrote:
> >Hi!
> >
> >I'm trying to compile Website Meta Language against maintperl but I'm 
> >getting
> >this:
> >
> ><<<<<<<<<<<<<
> >shlomi:~/progs/wml/wml-itself/core/svn/2.0.x/src/wml_backend/p3_eperl$ make
> >cc -Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib 
> >-L/home/shlomi/apps/perl/perl-5.8.x-latest/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux/CORE  -o
> >eperl eperl_main.o eperl_perl5.o eperl_parse.o eperl_pp.o eperl_sys.o
> >eperl_http.o eperl_getopt.o eperl_debug.o eperl_config.o eperl_version.o
> >eperl_readme.o eperl_license.o eperl_logo.o
> >eperl_powered.o 
> >/home/shlomi/apps/perl/perl-5.8.x-latest/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -lperl -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
> >cc: 
> >/home/shlomi/apps/perl/perl-5.8.x-latest/lib/5.8.8/i686-linux/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a:
> >No such file or directory
> >make: *** [eperl] Error 1

> ><<<<<<<<<
> >#!/bin/sh
> >rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
> >PREFIX="$HOME/apps/perl/perl-5.8.x-latest"
> >sh Configure -de -Dprefix="$PREFIX" -Doptimize='-g'
> >>>>>>>>>>

That's a sane way to configure it

> >So why isn't DynaLoader.a not installed?

Because it doesn't exist any more. The contents are now in libperl.a or
libperl.so


Whether it's our bug or their bug depends on whether the core previously
provided an official way to get the files needed to link Perl, and if yes,
whether they're ignoring it.

Nicholas Clark


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