Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond [LWN.net]

Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

Posted Sep 13, 2011 19:52 UTC (Tue) by FranTaylor (guest, #80190)
In reply to: Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond by nix
Parent article: Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

Do you know about chrpath? Use it to edit the runpath information in an ELF binary.

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Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

Posted Sep 14, 2011 1:36 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (3 responses)

Yes... but having to do that is disgusting.

Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

Posted Sep 14, 2011 11:28 UTC (Wed) by FranTaylor (guest, #80190) [Link] (2 responses)

And rebuilding from scratch isn't more disgusting? For goodness sake, you are just editing a file. It's no different from editing LD_LIBRARY_PATH in a wrapper script.

Seriously, put it in an upgrade script and move on! There are plenty of things more worthy of your disgust than this.

Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

Posted Sep 14, 2011 17:39 UTC (Wed) by k8to (guest, #15413) [Link] (1 responses)

He's pointing out that embedding perl is broken, essentially.

You're saying "but it's not *that* broken".

I don't find this argument very compelling.

Vincent: Perl 5.16 and Beyond

Posted Sep 14, 2011 21:52 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, it's broken by default, but on further analysis virtually every distro sets -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl5/something/without/a/version at configure time, ameliorating this problem somewhat (but making it impossible to install two different versions of Perl in parallel).