[arch-dev-public] Perl pathing issues

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Fri Dec 14 17:10:44 EST 2007


On Dec 14, 2007 4:07 PM, Tobias Kieslich <tobias at justdreams.de> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote:
>
> > On Dec 14, 2007 3:30 PM, Tobias Kieslich <tobias at justdreams.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, 14 Dec 2007, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Dec 14, 2007 1:23 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > There is a bug dealing with IRSSI on this, can anyone try a rebuild
> > > > > for me and see if that fixes it? I currently can't build packages...
> > > > > http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8911
> > > >
> > > > Good catch. Jeff, is weechat also affected? Do we know of any other
> > > > apps that embed perl? vim, at least, does.
> > >
> > > Hold on for a sec here, does that mean:
> > > 1. I have to rebuildd urvxt for testing?
> > > 2. vim does not need perl as a runtime dep?
> > > 3. neither does it need python?
> >
> > 1. yes
> > 2. and 3. I'm mistaken. This is _not_ the case. Vim loads them at runtime.
> not sure if you are actually, vim links against libruby but there are no
> actual dependencies to python or perl.
> I swear they used to be though ... wtf

I think it uses dlopen/dlsym to load it. I looked at the code once. So
it does it at runtime, but will fail hard if compiled with the option
and not found.




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