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package ExtUtils::Liblist;
use vars qw($VERSION);
# Broken out of MakeMaker from version 4.11
$VERSION = substr q$Revision: 1.25 $, 10;
use Config;
use Cwd 'cwd';
use File::Basename;
sub ext {
if ($^O eq 'VMS') { return &_vms_ext; }
elsif($^O eq 'MSWin32') { return &_win32_ext; }
else { return &_unix_os2_ext; }
}
sub _unix_os2_ext {
my($self,$potential_libs, $verbose) = @_;
if ($^O =~ 'os2' and $Config{libs}) {
# Dynamic libraries are not transitive, so we may need including
# the libraries linked against perl.dll again.
$potential_libs .= " " if $potential_libs;
$potential_libs .= $Config{libs};
}
return ("", "", "", "") unless $potential_libs;
warn "Potential libraries are '$potential_libs':\n" if $verbose;
my($so) = $Config{'so'};
my($libs) = $Config{'libs'};
my $Config_libext = $Config{lib_ext} || ".a";
# compute $extralibs, $bsloadlibs and $ldloadlibs from
# $potential_libs
# this is a rewrite of Andy Dougherty's extliblist in perl
my(@searchpath); # from "-L/path" entries in $potential_libs
my(@libpath) = split " ", $Config{'libpth'};
my(@ldloadlibs, @bsloadlibs, @extralibs, @ld_run_path, %ld_run_path_seen);
my($fullname, $thislib, $thispth, @fullname);
my($pwd) = cwd(); # from Cwd.pm
my($found) = 0;
foreach $thislib (split ' ', $potential_libs){
# Handle possible linker path arguments.
if ($thislib =~ s/^(-[LR])//){ # save path flag type
my($ptype) = $1;
unless (-d $thislib){
warn "$ptype$thislib ignored, directory does not exist\n"
if $verbose;
next;
}
unless ($self->file_name_is_absolute($thislib)) {
warn "Warning: $ptype$thislib changed to $ptype$pwd/$thislib\n";
$thislib = $self->catdir($pwd,$thislib);
}
push(@searchpath, $thislib);
push(@extralibs, "$ptype$thislib");
push(@ldloadlibs, "$ptype$thislib");
next;
}
# Handle possible library arguments.
unless ($thislib =~ s/^-l//){
warn "Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '$thislib'\n";
next;
}
my($found_lib)=0;
foreach $thispth (@searchpath, @libpath){
# Try to find the full name of the library. We need this to
# determine whether it's a dynamically-loadable library or not.
# This tends to be subject to various os-specific quirks.
# For gcc-2.6.2 on linux (March 1995), DLD can not load
# .sa libraries, with the exception of libm.sa, so we
# deliberately skip them.
if (@fullname =
$self->lsdir($thispth,"^\Qlib$thislib.$so.\E[0-9]+")){
# Take care that libfoo.so.10 wins against libfoo.so.9.
# Compare two libraries to find the most recent version
# number. E.g. if you have libfoo.so.9.0.7 and
# libfoo.so.10.1, first convert all digits into two
# decimal places. Then we'll add ".00" to the shorter
# strings so that we're comparing strings of equal length
# Thus we'll compare libfoo.so.09.07.00 with
# libfoo.so.10.01.00. Some libraries might have letters
# in the version. We don't know what they mean, but will
# try to skip them gracefully -- we'll set any letter to
# '0'. Finally, sort in reverse so we can take the
# first element.
#TODO: iterate through the directory instead of sorting
$fullname = "$thispth/" .
(sort { my($ma) = $a;
my($mb) = $b;
$ma =~ tr/A-Za-z/0/s;
$ma =~ s/\b(\d)\b/0$1/g;
$mb =~ tr/A-Za-z/0/s;
$mb =~ s/\b(\d)\b/0$1/g;
while (length($ma) < length($mb)) { $ma .= ".00"; }
while (length($mb) < length($ma)) { $mb .= ".00"; }
# Comparison deliberately backwards
$mb cmp $ma;} @fullname)[0];
} elsif (-f ($fullname="$thispth/lib$thislib.$so")
&& (($Config{'dlsrc'} ne "dl_dld.xs") || ($thislib eq "m"))){
} elsif (-f ($fullname="$thispth/lib${thislib}_s$Config_libext")
&& ($thislib .= "_s") ){ # we must explicitly use _s version
} elsif (-f ($fullname="$thispth/lib$thislib$Config_libext")){
} elsif (-f ($fullname="$thispth/$thislib$Config_libext")){
} elsif (-f ($fullname="$thispth/Slib$thislib$Config_libext")){
} elsif ($^O eq 'dgux'
&& -l ($fullname="$thispth/lib$thislib$Config_libext")
&& readlink($fullname) =~ /^elink:/) {
# Some of DG's libraries look like misconnected symbolic
# links, but development tools can follow them. (They
# look like this:
#
# libm.a -> elink:${SDE_PATH:-/usr}/sde/\
# ${TARGET_BINARY_INTERFACE:-m88kdgux}/usr/lib/libm.a
#
# , the compilation tools expand the environment variables.)
} else {
warn "$thislib not found in $thispth\n" if $verbose;
next;
}
warn "'-l$thislib' found at $fullname\n" if $verbose;
my($fullnamedir) = dirname($fullname);
push @ld_run_path, $fullnamedir unless $ld_run_path_seen{$fullnamedir}++;
$found++;
$found_lib++;
# Now update library lists
# what do we know about this library...
my $is_dyna = ($fullname !~ /\Q$Config_libext\E$/);
my $in_perl = ($libs =~ /\B-l\Q$ {thislib}\E\b/s);
# Do not add it into the list if it is already linked in
# with the main perl executable.
# We have to special-case the NeXT, because math and ndbm
# are both in libsys_s
unless ($in_perl ||
($Config{'osname'} eq 'next' &&
($thislib eq 'm' || $thislib eq 'ndbm')) ){
push(@extralibs, "-l$thislib");
}
# We might be able to load this archive file dynamically
if ( ($Config{'dlsrc'} =~ /dl_next/ && $Config{'osvers'} lt '4_0')
|| ($Config{'dlsrc'} =~ /dl_dld/) )
{
# We push -l$thislib instead of $fullname because
# it avoids hardwiring a fixed path into the .bs file.
# Mkbootstrap will automatically add dl_findfile() to
# the .bs file if it sees a name in the -l format.
# USE THIS, when dl_findfile() is fixed:
# push(@bsloadlibs, "-l$thislib");
# OLD USE WAS while checking results against old_extliblist
push(@bsloadlibs, "$fullname");
} else {
if ($is_dyna){
# For SunOS4, do not add in this shared library if
# it is already linked in the main perl executable
push(@ldloadlibs, "-l$thislib")
unless ($in_perl and $^O eq 'sunos');
} else {
push(@ldloadlibs, "-l$thislib");
}
}
last; # found one here so don't bother looking further
}
warn "Note (probably harmless): "
."No library found for -l$thislib\n"
unless $found_lib>0;
}
return ('','','','') unless $found;
("@extralibs", "@bsloadlibs", "@ldloadlibs",join(":",@ld_run_path));
}
sub _win32_ext {
require Text::ParseWords;
my($self, $potential_libs, $verbose) = @_;
# If user did not supply a list, we punt.
# (caller should probably use the list in $Config{libs})
return ("", "", "", "") unless $potential_libs;
my($so) = $Config{'so'};
my($libs) = $Config{'libs'};
my($libpth) = $Config{'libpth'};
my($libext) = $Config{'lib_ext'} || ".lib";
if ($libs and $potential_libs !~ /:nodefault/i) {
# If Config.pm defines a set of default libs, we always
# tack them on to the user-supplied list, unless the user
# specified :nodefault
$potential_libs .= " " if $potential_libs;
$potential_libs .= $libs;
}
warn "Potential libraries are '$potential_libs':\n" if $verbose;
# compute $extralibs from $potential_libs
my(@searchpath); # from "-L/path" entries in $potential_libs
my(@libpath) = Text::ParseWords::quotewords('\s+', 0, $libpth);
my(@extralibs);
my($fullname, $thislib, $thispth);
my($pwd) = cwd(); # from Cwd.pm
my($lib) = '';
my($found) = 0;
foreach $thislib (Text::ParseWords::quotewords('\s+', 0, $potential_libs)){
# Handle possible linker path arguments.
if ($thislib =~ s/^-L// and not -d $thislib) {
warn "-L$thislib ignored, directory does not exist\n"
if $verbose;
next;
}
elsif (-d $thislib) {
unless ($self->file_name_is_absolute($thislib)) {
warn "Warning: '-L$thislib' changed to '-L$pwd/$thislib'\n";
$thislib = $self->catdir($pwd,$thislib);
}
push(@searchpath, $thislib);
next;
}
# Handle possible library arguments.
if ($thislib =~ s/^-l// and $thislib !~ /^lib/i) {
$thislib = "lib$thislib";
}
$thislib .= $libext if $thislib !~ /\Q$libext\E$/i;
my($found_lib)=0;
foreach $thispth (@searchpath, @libpath){
unless (-f ($fullname="$thispth\\$thislib")) {
warn "$thislib not found in $thispth\n" if $verbose;
next;
}
warn "'$thislib' found at $fullname\n" if $verbose;
$found++;
$found_lib++;
push(@extralibs, $fullname);
last;
}
warn "Note (probably harmless): "
."No library found for '$thislib'\n"
unless $found_lib>0;
}
return ('','','','') unless $found;
# make sure paths with spaces are properly quoted
@extralibs = map { (/\s/ && !/^".*"$/) ? qq["$_"] : $_ } @extralibs;
$lib = join(' ',@extralibs);
warn "Result: $lib\n" if $verbose;
wantarray ? ($lib, '', $lib, '') : $lib;
}
sub _vms_ext {
my($self, $potential_libs,$verbose) = @_;
my(@crtls,$crtlstr);
my($dbgqual) = $self->{OPTIMIZE} || $Config{'optimize'} ||
$self->{CCFLAS} || $Config{'ccflags'};
@crtls = ( ($dbgqual =~ m-/Debug-i ? $Config{'dbgprefix'} : '')
. 'PerlShr/Share' );
push(@crtls, grep { not /\(/ } split /\s+/, $Config{'libs'});
push(@crtls, grep { not /\(/ } split /\s+/, $Config{'libc'});
# In general, we pass through the basic libraries from %Config unchanged.
# The one exception is that if we're building in the Perl source tree, and
# a library spec could be resolved via a logical name, we go to some trouble
# to insure that the copy in the local tree is used, rather than one to
# which a system-wide logical may point.
if ($self->{PERL_SRC}) {
my($lib,$locspec,$type);
foreach $lib (@crtls) {
if (($locspec,$type) = $lib =~ m-^([\w$\-]+)(/\w+)?- and $locspec =~ /perl/i) {
if (lc $type eq '/share') { $locspec .= $Config{'exe_ext'}; }
elsif (lc $type eq '/library') { $locspec .= $Config{'lib_ext'}; }
else { $locspec .= $Config{'obj_ext'}; }
$locspec = $self->catfile($self->{PERL_SRC},$locspec);
$lib = "$locspec$type" if -e $locspec;
}
}
}
$crtlstr = @crtls ? join(' ',@crtls) : '';
unless ($potential_libs) {
warn "Result:\n\tEXTRALIBS: \n\tLDLOADLIBS: $crtlstr\n" if $verbose;
return ('', '', $crtlstr, '');
}
my(@dirs,@libs,$dir,$lib,%sh,%olb,%obj,$ldlib);
my $cwd = cwd();
my($so,$lib_ext,$obj_ext) = @Config{'so','lib_ext','obj_ext'};
# List of common Unix library names and there VMS equivalents
# (VMS equivalent of '' indicates that the library is automatially
# searched by the linker, and should be skipped here.)
my %libmap = ( 'm' => '', 'f77' => '', 'F77' => '', 'V77' => '', 'c' => '',
'malloc' => '', 'crypt' => '', 'resolv' => '', 'c_s' => '',
'socket' => '', 'X11' => 'DECW$XLIBSHR',
'Xt' => 'DECW$XTSHR', 'Xm' => 'DECW$XMLIBSHR',
'Xmu' => 'DECW$XMULIBSHR');
if ($Config{'vms_cc_type'} ne 'decc') { $libmap{'curses'} = 'VAXCCURSE'; }
warn "Potential libraries are '$potential_libs'\n" if $verbose;
# First, sort out directories and library names in the input
foreach $lib (split ' ',$potential_libs) {
push(@dirs,$1), next if $lib =~ /^-L(.*)/;
push(@dirs,$lib), next if $lib =~ /[:>\]]$/;
push(@dirs,$lib), next if -d $lib;
push(@libs,$1), next if $lib =~ /^-l(.*)/;
push(@libs,$lib);
}
push(@dirs,split(' ',$Config{'libpth'}));
# Now make sure we've got VMS-syntax absolute directory specs
# (We don't, however, check whether someone's hidden a relative
# path in a logical name.)
foreach $dir (@dirs) {
unless (-d $dir) {
warn "Skipping nonexistent Directory $dir\n" if $verbose > 1;
$dir = '';
next;
}
warn "Resolving directory $dir\n" if $verbose;
if ($self->file_name_is_absolute($dir)) { $dir = $self->fixpath($dir,1); }
else { $dir = $self->catdir($cwd,$dir); }
}
@dirs = grep { length($_) } @dirs;
unshift(@dirs,''); # Check each $lib without additions first
LIB: foreach $lib (@libs) {
if (exists $libmap{$lib}) {
next unless length $libmap{$lib};
$lib = $libmap{$lib};
}
my(@variants,$variant,$name,$test,$cand);
my($ctype) = '';
# If we don't have a file type, consider it a possibly abbreviated name and
# check for common variants. We try these first to grab libraries before
# a like-named executable image (e.g. -lperl resolves to perlshr.exe
# before perl.exe).
if ($lib !~ /\.[^:>\]]*$/) {
push(@variants,"${lib}shr","${lib}rtl","${lib}lib");
push(@variants,"lib$lib") if $lib !~ /[:>\]]/;
}
push(@variants,$lib);
warn "Looking for $lib\n" if $verbose;
foreach $variant (@variants) {
foreach $dir (@dirs) {
my($type);
$name = "$dir$variant";
warn "\tChecking $name\n" if $verbose > 2;
if (-f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name))) {
# It's got its own suffix, so we'll have to figure out the type
if ($test =~ /(?:$so|exe)$/i) { $type = 'sh'; }
elsif ($test =~ /(?:$lib_ext|olb)$/i) { $type = 'olb'; }
elsif ($test =~ /(?:$obj_ext|obj)$/i) {
warn "Note (probably harmless): "
."Plain object file $test found in library list\n";
$type = 'obj';
}
else {
warn "Note (probably harmless): "
."Unknown library type for $test; assuming shared\n";
$type = 'sh';
}
}
elsif (-f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,$so)) or
-f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,'.exe'))) {
$type = 'sh';
$name = $test unless $test =~ /exe;?\d*$/i;
}
elsif (not length($ctype) and # If we've got a lib already, don't bother
( -f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,$lib_ext)) or
-f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,'.olb')))) {
$type = 'olb';
$name = $test unless $test =~ /olb;?\d*$/i;
}
elsif (not length($ctype) and # If we've got a lib already, don't bother
( -f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,$obj_ext)) or
-f ($test = VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand($name,'.obj')))) {
warn "Note (probably harmless): "
."Plain object file $test found in library list\n";
$type = 'obj';
$name = $test unless $test =~ /obj;?\d*$/i;
}
if (defined $type) {
$ctype = $type; $cand = $name;
last if $ctype eq 'sh';
}
}
if ($ctype) {
eval '$' . $ctype . "{'$cand'}++";
die "Error recording library: $@" if $@;
warn "\tFound as $cand (really $test), type $ctype\n" if $verbose > 1;
next LIB;
}
}
warn "Note (probably harmless): "
."No library found for $lib\n";
}
@libs = sort keys %obj;
# This has to precede any other CRTLs, so just make it first
if ($olb{VAXCCURSE}) {
push(@libs,"$olb{VAXCCURSE}/Library");
delete $olb{VAXCCURSE};
}
push(@libs, map { "$_/Library" } sort keys %olb);
push(@libs, map { "$_/Share" } sort keys %sh);
$lib = join(' ',@libs);
$ldlib = $crtlstr ? "$lib $crtlstr" : $lib;
warn "Result:\n\tEXTRALIBS: $lib\n\tLDLOADLIBS: $ldlib\n" if $verbose;
wantarray ? ($lib, '', $ldlib, '') : $lib;
}
1;
__END__
=head1 NAME
ExtUtils::Liblist - determine libraries to use and how to use them
=head1 SYNOPSIS
C<require ExtUtils::Liblist;>
C<ExtUtils::Liblist::ext($self, $potential_libs, $verbose);>
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This utility takes a list of libraries in the form C<-llib1 -llib2
-llib3> and prints out lines suitable for inclusion in an extension
Makefile. Extra library paths may be included with the form
C<-L/another/path> this will affect the searches for all subsequent
libraries.
It returns an array of four scalar values: EXTRALIBS, BSLOADLIBS,
LDLOADLIBS, and LD_RUN_PATH. Some of these don't mean anything
on VMS and Win32. See the details about those platform specifics
below.
Dependent libraries can be linked in one of three ways:
=over 2
=item * For static extensions
by the ld command when the perl binary is linked with the extension
library. See EXTRALIBS below.
=item * For dynamic extensions
by the ld command when the shared object is built/linked. See
LDLOADLIBS below.
=item * For dynamic extensions
by the DynaLoader when the shared object is loaded. See BSLOADLIBS
below.
=back
=head2 EXTRALIBS
List of libraries that need to be linked with when linking a perl
binary which includes this extension Only those libraries that
actually exist are included. These are written to a file and used
when linking perl.
=head2 LDLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
List of those libraries which can or must be linked into the shared
library when created using ld. These may be static or dynamic
libraries. LD_RUN_PATH is a colon separated list of the directories
in LDLOADLIBS. It is passed as an environment variable to the process
that links the shared library.
=head2 BSLOADLIBS
List of those libraries that are needed but can be linked in
dynamically at run time on this platform. SunOS/Solaris does not need
this because ld records the information (from LDLOADLIBS) into the
object file. This list is used to create a .bs (bootstrap) file.
=head1 PORTABILITY
This module deals with a lot of system dependencies and has quite a
few architecture specific B<if>s in the code.
=head2 VMS implementation
The version of ext() which is executed under VMS differs from the
Unix-OS/2 version in several respects:
=over 2
=item *
Input library and path specifications are accepted with or without the
C<-l> and C<-L> prefices used by Unix linkers. If neither prefix is
present, a token is considered a directory to search if it is in fact
a directory, and a library to search for otherwise. Authors who wish
their extensions to be portable to Unix or OS/2 should use the Unix
prefixes, since the Unix-OS/2 version of ext() requires them.
=item *
Wherever possible, shareable images are preferred to object libraries,
and object libraries to plain object files. In accordance with VMS
naming conventions, ext() looks for files named I<lib>shr and I<lib>rtl;
it also looks for I<lib>lib and libI<lib> to accomodate Unix conventions
used in some ported software.
=item *
For each library that is found, an appropriate directive for a linker options
file is generated. The return values are space-separated strings of
these directives, rather than elements used on the linker command line.
=item *
LDLOADLIBS contains both the libraries found based on C<$potential_libs> and
the CRTLs, if any, specified in Config.pm. EXTRALIBS contains just those
libraries found based on C<$potential_libs>. BSLOADLIBS and LD_RUN_PATH
are always empty.
=back
In addition, an attempt is made to recognize several common Unix library
names, and filter them out or convert them to their VMS equivalents, as
appropriate.
In general, the VMS version of ext() should properly handle input from
extensions originally designed for a Unix or VMS environment. If you
encounter problems, or discover cases where the search could be improved,
please let us know.
=head2 Win32 implementation
The version of ext() which is executed under Win32 differs from the
Unix-OS/2 version in several respects:
=over 2
=item *
Input library and path specifications are accepted with or without the
C<-l> and C<-L> prefices used by Unix linkers. C<-lfoo> specifies the
library C<libfoo.lib> (unless C<foo> already starts with C<lib>), and
C<-Ls:ome\dir> specifies a directory to look for the libraries that follow.
If neither prefix is present, a token is considered a directory to search
if it is in fact a directory, and a library to search for otherwise. The
C<$Config{lib_ext}> suffix will be appended to any entries that are not
directories and don't already have the suffix. Authors who wish their
extensions to be portable to Unix or OS/2 should use the Unix prefixes,
since the Unix-OS/2 version of ext() requires them.
=item *
Entries cannot be plain object files, as many Win32 compilers will
not handle object files in the place of libraries.
=item *
If C<$potential_libs> is empty, the return value will be empty.
Otherwise, the libraries specified by C<$Config{libs}> (see Config.pm)
will be appended to the list of C<$potential_libs>. The libraries
will be searched for in the directories specified in C<$potential_libs>
as well as in C<$Config{libpth}>. For each library that is found, a
space-separated list of fully qualified library pathnames is generated.
You may specify an entry that matches C</:nodefault/i> in
C<$potential_libs> to disable the appending of default libraries
found in C<$Config{libs}> (this should be only needed very rarely).
=item *
The libraries specified may be a mixture of static libraries and
import libraries (to link with DLLs). Since both kinds are used
pretty transparently on the win32 platform, we do not attempt to
distinguish between them.
=item *
LDLOADLIBS and EXTRALIBS are always identical under Win32, and BSLOADLIBS
and LD_RUN_PATH are always empty (this may change in future).
=item *
You must make sure that any paths and path components are properly
surrounded with double-quotes if they contain spaces. For example,
C<$potential_libs> could be (literally):
"-Lc:\Program Files\vc\lib" msvcrt.lib "la test\foo bar.lib"
Note how the first and last entries are protected by quotes in order
to protect the spaces.
=back
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>
=cut
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