From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 20 03:56:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA10359 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 03:56:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from glitnir.cfar.umd.edu (root@glitnir.cfar.umd.edu [128.8.132.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA10339 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 03:56:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from arensb@cfar.umd.edu) Received: from cfar.umd.edu (arensb@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (known localhost [127.0.0.1]) by glitnir.cfar.umd.edu (8.8.5/8.8.4) with ESMTP id GAA10867; Wed, 20 May 1998 06:56:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199805201056.GAA10867@glitnir.cfar.umd.edu> To: Patrick Gardella Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl Shared Library In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 18 May 1998 14:45:33 EDT." Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 06:56:12 -0400 From: Andrew Arensburger Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 18 May 1998 14:45:33 EDT, Patrick Gardella wrote: > I am using the Perl Compiler with perl 5.003. One of the things the author > suggests is to compile libperl.a as a shared library. He gives examples of > Digital Unix and Linux, but neither of those work. I've looked in the > archives, and did not find anything specific to the perl shared library. Unfortunately, I can't give you a step-by-step walkthrough either, but here's what I'd do (and have done, the last time I needed to). And I don't have any FreeBSD machines handy, so I can't even look it up easily. Look in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config and /usr/share/mk (?). These are both repositories of recipes for building different types of files; the first is for 'imake', the second is for Berkeley 'make'. If you're not familiar with 'imake' or the finer points of 'make', these files will look pretty cryptic and intimidating, but don't let them get to you. Look for likely-looking strings (e.g., references to shared libraries in the comments, ".so.", etc.), and experiment. -- Andrew Arensburger, Systems guy Center for Automation Research arensb@cfar.umd.edu University of Maryland hristo mou! eho ena tsekouri sto kefali mou! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message