Matthijs Möhlmann <matth...@cacholong.nl> writes:

> I've read the bugreport and as far as I understand this only applies to
> i386 architecture. On amd64 it is working well according to the testing
> of Russ.

> Secondly this has to do with perl not linked to libperl on i386
> architecture. Is there a reason why this isn't done on i386?

It was originally done for speed reasons so that the core Perl code in the
interpreter wasn't built PIC on i386.  Personally, I'd take the packaging
simplicity over the speed benefit, but I also haven't benchmarked.

-- 
Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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