Re: Perl 5.6.0 Is Here!
According to Stephen Zander:
> >>>>> "Chip" == Chip Salzenberg <chip@valinux.com> writes:
> Chip> Well, I agree, _but_ who's to say that there would never be
> Chip> a build process involving, say, building some Perl modules
> Chip> for use with mod_perl?
>
> Such a build process is *still* going to occur outside mod_perl so
> hacking Config.pm still won't help. What's needed is a way to
> override MakeMaker's view of libperl, useshrplib & friends from the
> command-line [...]
Yes, I think that's a better way to look at it. I think I had a
glimpse of this view at the beginning, which is why I suggested that
libperl.so be distributed with a /usr/bin/perl-5.6-shared. Then it
would be easy to build modules for use with mod_perl:
$ perl-5.6-shared Makefile.PL
Presto.
--
Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - <chip@valinux.com>
"I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery of existence,
but he stepped in a wormhole and had to go in early." // MST3K
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