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Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) schrieb:
> Reini Urban wrote:
>> And I have to add that packaging perl is really hard, because I haven't got yet
>> the chroot trick to work when packaging it.
>> Modules hardcode absolute paths and install into hardcoded places, so it had
>> has to be done into the live tree and picking up the mass of new files
>> installed
>> there is a mess - done with a timestamp.
> 
> Did you look at how Gentoo deals with this:
> 
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/perl/perl-5.8.8-r4.ebuild
> 
> And in particular this patch:
> 
> http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/dev-lang/perl/files/perl-5.8.7-MakeMaker-RUNPATH.patch

Yes, and I don't like it. It really should be done by chroot or some 
postinstall fixup, so that the runtime loadpath is not compromised.
I also don't like what other distros have in their runtime loadpath.
Maybe they don't care so much about useless stat's in non-existing dirs, 
because stat is so much faster on their OS.

But now that 5.10 is officially out I'm trying it again over the weekend.
-- 
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