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authorChip Turner <cturner@redhat.com>2003-01-05 05:35:40 -0500
committerJarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>2003-03-10 05:23:32 +0000
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Re: Shared libperl.so and build issues
Message-ID: <vzky95z8v8z.fsf@minbar.devel.redhat.com> p4raw-id: //depot/perl@18874
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@@ -937,9 +937,10 @@ libperl.so.8 rather with the installed libperl.so.8? The answer is
that you might not be able to. The installation directory is encoded
in the perl binary with the LD_RUN_PATH environment variable (or
equivalent ld command-line option). On Solaris, you can override that
-with LD_LIBRARY_PATH; on Linux you can't. On Digital Unix, you can
-override LD_LIBRARY_PATH by setting the _RLD_ROOT environment variable
-to point to the perl build directory.
+with LD_LIBRARY_PATH; on Linux, you can only override at runtime via
+LD_PRELOAD, specifying the exact filename you wish to be used; and on
+Digital Unix, you can override LD_LIBRARY_PATH by setting the
+_RLD_ROOT environment variable to point to the perl build directory.
The only reliable answer is that you should specify a different
directory for the architecture-dependent library for your -DDEBUGGING