Re: Linking with Perl

[Akim Demaille]

[Hm, I think I forgot to send it.]

>>>>> "Akim" == Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

Akim> Yeah, I'm really bad at it :) I installed a symlink libperl.so,
Akim> and everything works fine.  Reported to Debian.

FYI, here is the answer from Brendan, where I prove to be quite a
naive user :)

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On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 02:19:41PM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
>Package: libperl5.6
>Version: 5.6.1-5
>Severity: normal
>Tags: woody sid
>
>Hi Brendan!

Hey Akim, how goes it?

>The package does not install any libperl.so, therefore trying to
>-lperl is doomed to failure.

The .so symlink is in the libperl-dev package with the static libperl.a
library (cf. Debian Policy §9, "Shared libraries").

Regards,
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Brendan O'Dea                                        address@hidden
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