Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Chris Houser <chouser@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Shared perl library
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 08:53:32
Message-Id: 20011119095142.B147024@plato.zk3.dec.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Shared perl library by Geert Bevin
1 Geert Bevin wrote: [Sun Nov 18 2001, 7:13:59AM EST]
2 > to build perl support inside postgres it needs the shared version of
3 > libperl (libperl.so).
4
5 One option would be to create a new libperl ebuild. Another would be to
6 extend the current perl ebuild to always build a .so, but to not
7 necessarily use it for the perl binary itself.
8
9 I don't know which is better, or if it would really be all that bad for
10 /usr/bin/perl to use a perl.so.
11
12 --Chouser