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To: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@pingpong.net>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Building PL/Perl without libperl.so fails 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 30 Dec 2002 15:03:27 +0100."
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Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2003 14:39:28 +0200
From: Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>

Palle,

While this should be doable (by patching configure/Makefiles), why would you 
not want to have libperl.so?

On many systems, the .a files are considered 'development', while the .so 
files are considered 'runtime'. Or is the libperl.a on FreeBSD 5.0 different?

Daniel

>>>Palle Girgensohn said:
 > Hi!
 > 
 > With FreeBSD 5.0, there is no libperl.so installed, only libperl.a. This 
 > makes building PL/Perl fail:
 > 
 > *** Cannot build PL/Perl because libperl is not a shared library.
 > *** You might have to rebuild your Perl installation.  Refer to
 > *** the documentation for details.
 > 
 > I'd rather link libplperl with a static libperl.a than adding a shared 
 > libperl.so to the perl port. Can this be done, or will something break?
 > 
 > /Palle
 > 
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