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From:
Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
Date:
March 14, 2007 22:05
Subject:
Re: [Probably Bug] DynaLoader.a is not Present in maintperl and Breaks the Compilation of Website Meta Language
Message ID:
loom.20070315T021540-174@post.gmane.org
Rafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez <at> gmail.com> writes:
> On 14/03/07, Nicholas Clark <nick <at> ccl4.org> wrote:
> > 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.

The official way is:

   perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts

and that does no longer include DynaLoader.a
(at least in blead; I don't have a maintperl
build at the moment.)

> From blead's INSTALL document:
... 
> I guess that should be updated. But maybe for maint you'd wish to
> revert that change.

Or for maint only, include an empty DynaLoader.a.

(Is there a portable way to build an empty library?)
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