Re: Perl 5.6.0 Is Here!
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
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