"Jim Buttafuoco" <jim(at)spectrumtelecorp(dot)com> writes:
> Ok, I believe you. I am going to try on Solaris 8 and Tru64 now. I
> believe this is a real pain because I don't know of anyone that "ships"
> perl with a shared lib.
It's easy enough to get a shared perl lib if you build from source:
just say yes when the Configure script asks if you want one.
Precompiled distributions tend not to do this, though.
regards, tom lane