From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Dec 4 11:29:26 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 EAD8F37B401 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:29:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from heechee.tobez.org (heechee.tobez.org [213.237.10.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0408843EB2 for ; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 11:29:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tobez@tobez.org) Received: by heechee.tobez.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 672F0A921; Wed, 4 Dec 2002 20:29:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 20:29:20 +0100 From: Anton Berezin To: "Simon L. Nielsen" Cc: Palle Girgensohn , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libperl @ 5.0? Message-ID: <20021204192920.GB53713@heechee.tobez.org> Mail-Followup-To: Anton Berezin , "Simon L. Nielsen" , Palle Girgensohn , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org 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> <20021204184829.GA75082@nitro.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021204184829.GA75082@nitro.dk> 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 Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 07:48:29PM +0100, Simon L. Nielsen wrote: > 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. Here is the problem. The perl build does not provide such possibility. Of course, in principle we could do it ourselves in the FreeBSD port, but I really hate the idea of not using the build mechanisms provided by the perl distribution. =Anton. -- | Anton Berezin | FreeBSD: The power to serve | | catpipe Systems ApS _ _ |_ | http://www.FreeBSD.org | | tobez@catpipe.net (_(_|| | tobez@FreeBSD.org | | +45 7021 0050 | Private: tobez@tobez.org | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message