On Apr 15, 2005, at 3:51 PM, John Delacour wrote:
From README.macosx in the Perl distribution (5.8.6):-
« The default of building Perl statically may cause problems with complex
applications like Tk: in that case consider building shared Perl
Configure ... -Duseshrplib
but remember that there's a startup cost to pay in that case (see above
"libperl and Prebinding"). »
Sherm, who wrote that, may care to elaborate.
Actually, I was just repeating what I'd heard from other sources. I always use a shared libperl anyway, and I've never had a need to Tk myself. The Perl builds supplied by Apple are linked dynamically though, so it's only an issue if you've built your own Perl.
sherm--
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