On 08/31/2014 07:46 AM, Niko Tyni wrote:
> The problem, of course, is that libperl.so moved from /usr/lib/libperl.so
> to /usr/lib/<triplet>/libperl.so, so it looks like debian/rules needs
> to be updated accordingly. Patch attached, this makes it build for me.
Thank you for your patch. I changed debian/rules accordingly, and I'm
now about to upload.
> I do wonder about the missing runtime dependency. Comments in
> gui-wx/configure/configure.ac indicate libperl gets loaded dynamically
> at runtime. Is it intentional to not even Recommend libperl5.20, or is
> that left out because it's non-trivial to do? (See #611573 for a similar
> issue with the vim source package.)
It would be good to add Suggested, but I don't know users of those
language bindings (including myself). As I don't want to limit
Golly's ability, the package is compiled for those language bindings,
but I'm not sure if its really useful. Surely, it's useful for
Golly developers and special life game developers, though.
> I see you're currently parsing the output of the 'ls -l' command to get
> the symlink target of libperl.so in libperl-dev. I can see why that's
> necessary, but please note that I've just filed #759989 against perl to
> make it possible to use $Config{libperl} in the future for this.
Thank you. Noted.
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