From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Dec 4 10:48:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A205B37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:48:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from nitro.dk (port324.ds1-khk.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.113.79]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B77C843EBE for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 10:48:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from simon@nitro.dk) Received: (qmail 78862 invoked by uid 1000); 4 Dec 2002 18:48:29 -0000 Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 19:48:29 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" To: Anton Berezin Cc: Palle Girgensohn , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libperl @ 5.0? Message-ID: <20021204184829.GA75082@nitro.dk> References: <64570000.1038916680@palle.girgensohn.se> <20021203205417.GA56669@rot13.obsecurity.org> <17950000.1038958165@palle.girgensohn.se> <20021203234909.GC372@nitro.dk> <70310000.1038964840@palle.girgensohn.se> <20021204182405.GO25797@heechee.tobez.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021204182405.GO25797@heechee.tobez.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 2002.12.04 19:24:05 +0000, Anton Berezin wrote: > > I reckon... Hmmm... Either we need to install libperl.so, or get plperl to > > statically link. I don't know enough about statically linking .so-files... > lang/perl5 does not create nor install shared perl library. The reason > for this is that there are not many programs which embed perl, and that > the perl binary itself is slightly faster when linked with libperl.a. > It is not something I would fight over, though, meaning that lang/perl5 > can be changed to produce libperl.so, if that is what people want. Is it possible to make the port produce both the .a and the .so file ? Wouldn't this would solve the problem for programs embeding perl, without losing speed in case of the normal perl program. -- Simon L. Nielsen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message