Hi, Aravinda,
having read your patch for DBD::mysql, I must admit that I do not like them. They all seem to have the elimination of Perl's automatic module build system in mind. For example:
- Rather than trust Perl that it knows the location and name of libperl.a, you explicitly specify a name.
- Rather than choosing the compiler that was used to compile Perl, you explicitly fix a name.
...
I am by no means convinced, that all your changes are required. In particular, I am not convinced that you followed the standard procedure, which is
- compile Perl and MySQL, DBI, and DBD::mysql with the same compiler - do it on the same machine
Please give some explanations, why you think all these changes are required. You wrote you are using Netware/Linux. Why are the differences that big, if it is indeed Linux?
Jochen
