Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Update: perl-5.14.2-3 and most perl dependencies

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 2:58 AM, marco atzeri wrote:
> On 7/16/2012 9:35 AM, Achim Gratz wrote:
>> There seems to be a minor packaging error:
>>   /usr/lib/perl5/5.14/i686-cygwin-threads-64int/CORE/cygperl5_14_2.dll
>> is a symbolic link pointing to
>>   /usr/bin/cygperl5_14_2.dll
>> but this file doesn't exist.

Thanks.
It's a build script error, but harmless. I'll fix it with the next update.

> I had the impression that symbolic link of dll does not work on cygwin
> due to MS constrain

Yes, but I use it the other way. The MS loader picks up the dll in
/usr/bin because it's in the PATH,
and cygwin gcc / ld (the linker) picks up the symlink in
<archlib>/CORE, where it is expected.
This way I get around the import lib in most cases and can support
multiple perl variants without
name conflicts.
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