"Jim Buttafuoco" <jim(at)spectrumtelecorp(dot)com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I "fixed" the Makefile.PL script under src/pl/plperl and
> removed the if ($Config{'useshrplib'} ne 'true') { ... } code.
>
> This will link in the static libperl.a file. The only down side
> of this is your libplperl.so file is going to be larger.
That's not the only downside, on most architectures it won't
work. Code used like this should be compiled with -fpic, and static
libraries rarely are.
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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.