Question about .bs files

Chris Weyl cweyl at alumni.drew.edu
Wed Sep 16 19:31:37 UTC 2009


On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com>wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what the purpose of an empty *.bs files in the auto
> directory tree would be?  Do we need to package them?
>

.bs files are "bootstrap" files, to help DynaLoader with the loading of
shared libraries (binary)... DynaLoader ignores them if they're empty, so we
nuke them (if empty) rather than distribute them.  If they're not empty,
they should be packaged.

http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?DynaLoader

                               -Chris
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Chris Weyl
Ex astris, scientia
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