Re: Embedding in shared library blues
On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:29:11PM -0700, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>perl -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts currently gives me this:
>
>-rdynamic -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a \
> -L/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt
>
>For one thing, I don't really know why it wants to give us -L/usr/local/lib,
>but that's ok. I can live with that. [...]
The upstream Configure adds -L/usr/local/lib to ldflags which I've
retained, as users may wish to build local modules/embedded programs in
against libs in /usr/local/lib.
>[...] DynaLoader, however, is a problem -
>it's not PIC, but libperl is. I'd much rather keep modperl entirely PIC,
>and this is what seems to be stopping me at present. Any ideas?
DynaLoader.a contains a single file, DynaLoader.o which is used to
provide a portable interface to dynamic loading (uses dlopen() here) and
is compiled with -fPIC.
Regards,
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