Re: [mp1] Linking confusion

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William McKee wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:57:07PM -0500, Stas Bekman wrote:
> 
>>As [2] explains you have more than one libperl.so and the wrong one gets 
>>loaded. libperl.so should *not* be in /usr/lib or any other globally seen 
>>loader path if you want to have more than one perl on the same system. 
>>Unfortunately some distros don't get it and install libperl.(so|a) into 
>>/usr/lib :(
> 
> 
> I'm guessing that this goes for any libperl.so, e.g. libperl.so.5.6 or
> libperl.so.5.8. If so then it would explain the weird behavior that I've
> been getting when compiling mod_perl.

Normally in addition to libperl.so.5.8 there will be a symlink to 
libperl.so. Applications normally link against .so and not .so.x.y, so an 
upgrade of that library will be possible w/o requiring the compilation of 
the former.


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