Re: pl/perl won't build under 7.1.3

Ok,  I believe you.  I am going to try on Solaris 8 and Tru64 now.  I
believe this is a real pain because I don't know of anyone that "ships"
perl with a shared lib.




> "Jim Buttafuoco" <jim@spectrumtelecorp.com> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I "fixed" the Makefile.PL script under src/pl/plperl and
> > removed the if ($Config{'useshrplib'} ne 'true') { ... } code.
> >
> > This will link in the static libperl.a file.  The only down side
> > of this is your libplperl.so file is going to be larger.
>
> That's not the only downside, on most architectures it won't
> work. Code used like this should be compiled with -fpic, and static
> libraries rarely are.
>
> --
> Trond Eivind Glomsrød
> Red Hat, Inc.
>
>