Sorry, forgot that little detail: I have libperl.a. I got the perl
source, but in order to build in support for files >2GB, one must use
HP's ansi c compiler, which I don't have on this box. It can be done
with gcc, but gcc has to have been built using HP's ansi c compiler not
the built-in k&r compiler, so either way I need the ansi c compiler. Sigh.
Petre
Tom Lane wrote:
> Petre Scheie <petre.scheie@nextelpartners.com> writes:
>
>>When I run './configure --with-perl' for 7.3.1 on an HPUX 11.0 system I
>>get the error about it not being able to build PL/Perl because libperl
>>is not a shared library, as mentioned in the installation docs. In my
>>case, I installed perl 5.8 using the package from the HP Porting &
>>Archive Center. The doc for 7.3.1 suggests that libperl IS a shared
>>library for most 'recent perl versions', so it seems like it should
>>work. But it doesn't.
>
>
> Well, is it? Do you have a libperl.sl, or just libperl.a?
>
> Personally I have no problem with plperl on HPUX 10.20, but I build Perl
> from source so that I can tell its configure script to build a shared
> library. Last time I did that, which was perl 5.8.0, shared library was
> still *not* the default choice. I have no idea what the Porting Center
> chose for their build, but you should easily be able to tell from the
> installed filename.
>
> regards, tom lane
>