Ah, yes.  I see.  I will just modify the PLIST mechanism to make sure
the correct shared lib name is used.  I see there is prior art in
lang/libperl.

Thanks,

     -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
        Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
        http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/

Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com> writes:
> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Johnny C. Lam wrote:
> 
> : Should I try to fix this by forcing it to name the library
> : "libperl.so.5.3" regardless of object format?
> 
> No; "libperl.so" is correct.  Perl's shared object is in a version-specific
> directory (lib/perl5/platform/version/CORE/libperl.so[.x.x]), and the .x.x
> version suffix only exists for platforms which need it--that is, a.out.
> 
> -- 
> -- Todd Vierling (tv@pobox.com)
>