Re: Where is libperl.so?

[Glenn Ramsey <glenn@componic.co.nz>]

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 08:00:48PM +1200, Glenn Ramsey wrote:
> > Brendan O'Dea wrote:
> > > apt-get install libperl-dev
> >
> > That gets me a libperl.so, but it puts it in /usr/lib and not 
> > $Config{archlibexp}/CORE/, which is where this software looks for it and 
> > where the man page says it should be.
> >
> > Is this a bug in the Debian perl package? I also have an installation of 
> > Mandrake 10 and that has libperl.so in the above location.
> >
> > If it's not a bug then what should I tell the developers if I ask them 
> > to fix it?
>
> /usr/lib is in the linker's path so -lperl should work fine.  See the
> linker options produced by ExtUtils::Embed:
>
>  $ perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts

OK I see now, we are talking about different things.

I don't think the program is linked with libperl, at least it's not 
mentioned in the output of ldd.

I think what it does is to get the OS to exec (probably using system()) 
something like:

perl -MConfig -e 'print $Config{archlibexp}'

I think it then uses the path returned to dlopen() 
$Config{archlibexp}/CORE/libperl.so .

g

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