Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 20:29:20 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@FreeBSD.org> To: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@nitro.dk> Cc: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libperl @ 5.0? Message-ID: <20021204192920.GB53713@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <20021204184829.GA75082@nitro.dk> References: <64570000.1038916680@palle.girgensohn.se> <20021203205417.GA56669@rot13.obsecurity.org> <17950000.1038958165@palle.girgensohn.se> <20021203234909.GC372@nitro.dk> <70310000.1038964840@palle.girgensohn.se> <20021204182405.GO25797@heechee.tobez.org> <20021204184829.GA75082@nitro.dk>
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On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:48:29PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > On 2002.12.04 19:24:05 +0000, Anton Berezin wrote: > > > > I reckon... Hmmm... Either we need to install libperl.so, or get plperl to > > > statically link. I don't know enough about statically linking .so-files... > > lang/perl5 does not create nor install shared perl library. The reason > > for this is that there are not many programs which embed perl, and that > > the perl binary itself is slightly faster when linked with libperl.a. > > It is not something I would fight over, though, meaning that lang/perl5 > > can be changed to produce libperl.so, if that is what people want. > Is it possible to make the port produce both the .a and the .so file ? > Wouldn't this would solve the problem for programs embeding perl, without > losing speed in case of the normal perl program. Here is the problem. The perl build does not provide such possibility. Of course, in principle we could do it ourselves in the FreeBSD port, but I really hate the idea of not using the build mechanisms provided by the perl distribution. =Anton. -- | Anton Berezin | FreeBSD: The power to serve | | catpipe Systems ApS _ _ |_ | http://www.FreeBSD.org | | tobez@catpipe.net (_(_|| | tobez@FreeBSD.org | | +45 7021 0050 | Private: tobez@tobez.org | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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