Spilt libperl from perl

[Josh Boyer]

On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 22:41 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > 
> > That's only true if the world revolves around developing packages.  If
> > I'm a software developer writing and testing software, it works quite
> > nicely.  I have a checkout of anaconda, I run make and it builds for
> > x86_64.  If I have a need to test something or see something on i386, I
> > just have to ensure that -m32 is in my CFLAGS/LDFLAGS and can use the
> > same environment.  And then copy over the shared object into where I'm
> > testing or whatever happens to be needed for that case.
> > 
> > And the above holds true for a *LOT* of software.  If I'm using
> > something with pkg-config, I have to also set its appropriate
> > environment variable.  And similarly pass the right args to configure
> > for autofoolery.  
> > 
> 
> Have you actually tried this? I agree that if you've software with a simple 
> straight forward makefile then it might work, and thus that it could work for 
> software you develop yourself. But it doesn't hold true for a *LOT* of software.

Sounds like bugs in that software to me...

josh