Trond Eivind Glomsrød writes:
> > There are provisions in the source for figuring this out automatically.
> > Currently, the only "figuring" it does is to allow it on Linux. (It is my
> > understanding that it works on Linux independent of the CPU architecture.
> > In the past there have been problems with insufficient dynamic loader
> > implementations, but there is no principal design obstacle.)
>
> No. It works on IA32, but breaks elsewhere.
Libtool seems to think otherwise. And the people who provided the
patches to libtool are the ones who should know best.
> > But it would really be of advantage if distributors (i.e., you) supplied a
> > shared libperl by default. There are at least two high profile users
> > (PostgreSQL and Apache) running into this problem.
>
> It's not unlikely to happen for the next major series (we try hard to
> stay binary compatible within a series).
You don't break binary compatibility by providing a shared library
alongside a static one.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter