Perl ldflags - packaging bug, upstream bug, or weird feature?

[Max Bowsher]

$ fgrep -- '-L/usr/local/lib' /usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin/Config_heavy.pl
lddlflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib'
ldflags=' -s -L/usr/local/lib'
ldflags_nolargefiles=' -s -L/usr/local/lib'


The above shows the presence of -L/usr/local/lib in the packaged perl 
installation config vars.
This is a problem, because when compiling Perl extensions, it places 
/usr/local/lib at the front of the library search path, taking precedence 
over any other paths that the Makefile.PL may take care to specify. This is 
bad, because /usr/local/lib may contain old/incorrect versions of libraries 
which get found instead of the libraries the Makefile.PL attempted to point 
to with explicit -L options.

I don't know enough about the perl build process to know where that option 
is coming from - I'm hoping someone can tell me whether the presence of 
those harmful -L/usr/local/lib options is a packaging bug, an upstream bug, 
or a weird feature.

Max.


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