Wed Dec 15 04:00:06 2010: Request 63939 was acted upon.
Transaction: Ticket created by PHILKIME
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Severity: Normal
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: philk...@cpan.org
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=63939 >
It seems that the behaviour of --link is subtly different between OSX
and Linux.
Many libraries are symbolic links and are referenced through the link
names. Consider a library referenced as X which is a symlink to Y
X -> Y
On linux, pp dereferences X and packs Y with the name X, which is nice.
However on OSX, it seems that pp dereferences X and packs Y but with the
name Y. This breaks components which reference the library via name X.
I can work around this by copying Y to name X in, say, /tmp and then
packing /tmp/X and this works but it would be nice to make OSX pp have
the same behaviour as linux pp.
