volks,
we are having a bit of an argument in the house, with regards to the CCDLFLAGS - the build we do with gnu 3.1.1 on solaris generates the default of CCDLFLAGS = -R /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE whereas in the OSX build, we of course take the path that winds through -install_name $(shrpdir)/$@ and that this "extends" the system and/or environmental variables LD_LIBRARY_PATH/DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH when we go to compile new modules that will need to access dynamic libraries in the canonical library paths. Hence this merely tells anything we build dynamically with perl that they will find our libperl.<dynamic_ext> in this 'non-traditional place' - and does not Over Ride the default system paths and/or the appropriate environmental variables... this is my experience, but the language of the documentation is not 'clear' that this is actually what goes on here. Your assistance here will be appreciated.... { can we say a slow sunday - when we are arguing the text of build documentation? but your assistance will be appreciated... } ciao drieux --- there has got to be something peculiar about using experience from an OSX box to argue about what should be done on solaris boxes....