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> I am curious for a long time, why there are libperl and perl, which |
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> seemingly both recompile perl. |
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Michael Cummings ( http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.perl/238 ): |
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> [...] Right now we have an ebuild for libperl to build a the shared |
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> library, and the in the regular perl ebuild we build a huge honking |
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> static perl. |
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> I can see some of the rationale of this historically - on a fried box, a |
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> static perl will still run, whereas a dynamic one will be dead if |
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> /usr/lib is toasted. |
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> But seriously, do we really need to keep these separate? Wouldn't a |
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> (pseudo-ebuild syntax) IUSE="...static" and a if static? (myconf=$myconf |
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> -Dstatic_option) else ( myconf=$myconf -Ddynamic_option) work? (yeah, |
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> that was really bad pseudo-ebuild code, you get the drift). |
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IIRC we decided on merging libperl and perl in the future. |
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Christian Hartmann |
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