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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:50:30PM +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote: > On 14/03/07, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > From blead's INSTALL document: > > Currently, for most systems, the main perl executable is built by > linking the "perl library" libperl.a with perlmain.o, your static > extensions (usually just DynaLoader.a) and various extra libraries, > such as -lm. > > I guess that should be updated. But maybe for maint you'd wish to > revert that change. I'm not sure that I want to revert the change itself, because moving DynaLoader to libperl.so makes sense. But providing an empty DynaLoader.a might be an alternative. Somehow, ExtUtils::MakeMaker gets it right when compiling a static extention, and I'm wondering how it knows whether there is a DynaLoader.a Nicholas ClarkThread Previous | Thread Next