[plug] shared libperl - success thanks

[Michael Hunt]

I haven't used the Linux versions of Activestate so you are probably right
about the shared libraries. I will look into it at some stage in the future.

Glad you have got something working though.

Michael Hunt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Denis Brown" <dsbrown at cyllene.uwa.edu.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] shared libperl - success thanks


> Hello.
>
> Thanks to Matt and Michael for their suggestions last night.  I had a look
> at the ActiveState Perl documentation and it seemed to me they were not
> supporting shared library out-of-the-box.  Rather they were supporting the
> new 5.6 release of perl.
>
> I followed Matt's advice and grabbed the source from UWA's Debian mirror
> but woody's perl source seemed to point to potato's.  Since it was there
> complete with a diff file I grabbed them, applied the diff and built it
> with shared support.  The bottom line is that it retains it's
> "potato" characteristic so unlikely to be problems down the track.
>
> During the build, an error was flagged in the test suite but reading
> through the doco suggests this failure is not serious.  Michael, if I am
> in error about ActiveState's not having .so out of the box please correct
> me.  It might be good to have the 5.6 series code eventually.
>
> Now to get PostgreSQL compiling happily with perl support!
>
> Many thanks,
> Denis
>
>