On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 08:44:46PM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > OK, I've fiddling about a bit with static and shared builds. > > I build the distribution with useshrplib=true and installed, then > re-configured with useshrplib=false and overwrote the previously installed > perl binary with that. > > Everything appears to work fine. The `perl -V' output is not strictly > correct, but both modules and embedded apps build and work fine. > > This situation means however that all embedded applications are shared. > libperl.a is not installed at all. > > If both libperl.a and libperl.so are required it gets a bit more tricky, > and a seperate archlib and perl binary as Chip suggests would be > required.
Barring mod_perl's reaction to the performance hit (probably worthwhile, since apache-perl exists for people who need it, as I said), is there any embedded use of perl with a reason NOT to use the shared version? Dan /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/
