Todd C. Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Apr 2020 18:17:33 -0700, Andrew Hewus Fresh wrote: > > > Recently it was pointed out that we don't link /usr/lib/libperl.so.* to > > libm the way is expected for code that also links to libperl. That led > > me to go digging again into the customization we have around the perl > > build and getting terribly confused. That did somewhat clear up after > > reading more about bsd.*.mk, but still feel like some of this mess was > > to make the vax work, but I couldn't actually figure it out from the cvs > > logs why it exists. > > The way OpenBSD builds is that the libraries are built and installed > first, then the binaries that link against those binaries get built > and linked against the new libs. This guarantees that we don't > link new binaries against the old libs. > > In the past, vi was linked against libperl. However, I don't think > there is anything in base linking against libperl now so we can > probably let perl build and install its own libraries.
Sounds right to me.
