On Mon, 22 May 2000 17:05:47 +1000  I wrote:

> I've tried building perl-5.6.0, and while the build works and the
> non-broken-by-design parts of the test suite pass the install blows
> up:
> 
> # make install
> ...
> ./perl installperl 
> Can't load 'lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so' for module File::Glob: No such file or directory at lib/XSLoader.pm line 73.
>  at lib/File/Glob.pm line 94
> Compilation failed in require at installperl line 66.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at installperl line 66.

I've looked at this now; the problem is that dlopen() is insisting on
absolute paths on 1.4.2/i386 (a.out).  Apparently dlopen() doesn't
have this restriction on all NetBSD platforms?

Unless there is agreement that this is a NetBSD bug I'll send a perl
bug report requesting that like OpenBSD we get a file:

    perl-5.6.0/ext/DynaLoader/hints/netbsd.pl

saying

    # XXX Configure test needed?
    # Some NetBSDs seem to have a dlopen() that won't accept relative paths
    $self->{CCFLAGS} = $Config{ccflags} . ' -DDLOPEN_WONT_DO_RELATIVE_PATHS';

Trying to test dynamic loading within perl's Configure script I'll
leave to someone else.

Regards,

Giles