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.

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