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On Tue, 2012-09-04 at 10:21 +1000, Mark O'Keefe wrote: > I'm trying to use cygport to package up DLL's that are used as part > of a set of perl packages. Being vague doesn't help us help you. Telling us what package you're trying to build, and attaching your (draft) .cygport files, does. > The place that these are meant to be installed is under the perl site > configuration > (/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/<version>/auto/<package>/<subpackage>/*.dll. Cygwin packages should install Perl modules into vendor_perl (PERL_VENDORLIB and PERL_VENDORARCH in cygport terms). > Currently what happens is libtool munges the path to ../bin. If I > don't use cygport to do the installation, this means that the DLL's > are installed into: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/<version>/auto/<package>/bin > This doesn't work as this location is not in the search path for > perl's DynaLoader. > > When you add cygport to the equation the files end up in: /usr/bin > Again, this doesn't work as this isn't in the load path. This means "-module" is missing from the *_la_LDFLAGS for these module(s). You'll need to patch the affected Makefile.am file(s) and restart the build to fix this. Yaakov -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
