in reply to Re: perlcc can't find libperl
in thread perlcc can't find libperl

I really do want "perlcc" as directed in the requirements document. Not my call.

But; checking Knoppic 3.8 & 5.01, and RHEL 4 WS, none of these have a non-dynamic library.

Only my FreeBSD 4.11 has a ".a" library (5.8.5)

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Re^3: perlcc can't find libperl
by Fletch (Bishop) on Dec 07, 2006 at 19:31 UTC

    Then your best option is to point whomever came up with the demented requirement to use "perlcc" in the first place and educate them that:

    If that doesn't fix the problem, my condolences.

      It's very possibly going away sometime Real Soon Now
      It will be gone for 5.10.0:

      Change 28790 by rgs@stencil on 2006/09/06 14:04:33

      Remove perlcc and the byteloader

      Dave.

Re^3: perlcc can't find libperl
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Dec 07, 2006 at 19:18 UTC
    I really do want "perlcc" as directed in the requirements document. Not my call.

    Unfortunately, you'll probably have to support it yourself, as absolutely no one as shown any serious interest in doing so on p5p for several years. The rough but apparently unanimous consensus is that it doesn't work, it hasn't worked for a long time, and it's very unlikely to work ever.

    I don't say this to discourage you, and it's not a technical impossibility to get it to work, but none of the people I know who might have the skill to make it work have done so.

Re^3: perlcc can't find libperl
by andyford (Curate) on Dec 07, 2006 at 21:34 UTC

    In fact, now that I think about it, just make it and see if this changes things:

    cd /usr/lib ln -s libperl.so.5.8.8 /usr/lib/libperl.so ln -s libperl.so.5.8 /usr/lib/libperl.so
    Then see if you still get the "-lperl" missing message.

    non-Perl: Andy Ford

Re^3: perlcc can't find libperl
by andyford (Curate) on Dec 07, 2006 at 21:22 UTC

    Do they have a plain libperl.so with no version numbers?

    non-Perl: Andy Ford