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Very few succeed at improving Makefile.PL, and those that do don't ask questions like this

Why would one NOT want to improve their Makefile.PL ... That would be utterly ignorant!

Now if you meant improve MakeMaker et al ... I agree!

Upgrade ExtUtils::Liblist = 6.63_02 with Perl 5.16

It has always accepted those

It has, The following log bits would beg to differ ...
Shared build ...

Potential libraries are '-L/usr/local/lib -lMyLib -liconv':
'-lMyLib' found at /usr/local/lib/libMyLib.so
'-liconv' found at /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.7
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Shared build, fully qualified filename, using -l ...

Potential libraries are '-L/usr/local/lib -l/usr/local/lib/libMyLib.so
+ -liconv':
/usr/local/lib/libMyLib.so not found in /usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/libMyLib.so not found in /usr/lib
/usr/local/lib/libMyLib.so not found in /usr/local/lib
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -l/usr/local/lib/libMyL
+ib.so
'-liconv' found at /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.7
[download]

Shared build, full path and filename w/o extension, using -l ...

Potential libraries are '-L/usr/local/lib -l/usr/local/lib/libMyLib -l
+iconv':
/usr/local/lib/libMyLib not found in /usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/libMyLib not found in /usr/lib
/usr/local/lib/libMyLib not found in /usr/local/lib
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -l/usr/local/lib/libMyL
+ib
'-liconv' found at /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.7
[download]

Shared build, fully qualified filename, without using -l ...
A valid Make tool chain argument ...

Potential libraries are '-L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libMyLib.so -
+liconv':
Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '/usr/local/lib/libMyLib.so'
'-liconv' found at /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.7
[download]

Shared build, full path and filename w/o extension, without using -l ...

Potential libraries are '-L/usr/local/lib /usr/local/lib/libMyLib -lic
+onv':
Unrecognized argument in LIBS ignored: '/usr/local/lib/libMyLib'
'-liconv' found at /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.7
[download]

Shared build with full path, HACKED filename using -l ...

Potential libraries are '-L/usr/local/lib -l/usr/local/lib/MyLib.so -l
+iconv':
/usr/local/lib/MyLib.so not found in /usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/MyLib.so not found in /usr/lib
/usr/local/lib/MyLib.so not found in /usr/local/lib
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -l/usr/local/lib/MyLib.
+so
'-liconv' found at /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.7
[download]

Shared build with full path, HACKED filename w/o extension using -l ...

Potential libraries are '-L/usr/local/lib -l/usr/local/lib/MyLib -lico
+nv':
/usr/local/lib/MyLib not found in /usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/MyLib not found in /usr/lib
/usr/local/lib/MyLib not found in /usr/local/lib
Note (probably harmless): No library found for -l/usr/local/lib/MyLib
'-liconv' found at /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.7
[download]

Static build with both the .a and .so in /usr/local/lib ...
Should have picked up the .a ...

Potential libraries are '-L/usr/local/lib -lMyLib -lz -liconv':
'-lMyLib' found at /usr/local/lib/libMyLib.so
z not found in /usr/local/lib
'-lz' found at /usr/lib/libz.so
'-liconv' found at /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.7
[download]

Static build with /usr/local/lib/libMyLib.so removed ...

Potential libraries are '-L/usr/local/lib -lMyLib -lz -liconv':
'-lMyLib' found at /usr/local/lib/libMyLib.a
z not found in /usr/local/lib
'-lz' found at /usr/lib/libz.so
'-liconv' found at /usr/local/lib/libiconv.so.7
[download]

Think I got all logical and a couple illogical permutations covered ...

-Enjoy

In reply to Re^4: MakeMaker and Library filename extensions ( :nosearch ) by Anonymous Monk
in thread MakeMaker and Library filename extensions by Anonymous Monk

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