On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:57:07PM -0500, Stas Bekman wrote: > >During compilation of mod_perl, I was seeing undefined reference errors > >which are nicely described on the install page[1]. The prescription > >suggests rebuilding Perl with dynamic linking; apparently the version > >that's shipped with Debian is not dynamically linked(?). Sounds fine, > >but I'm not a C programmer so am not sure exactly what this means. > > Now that you know what does it take, please send a patch that extends [1] > to explain how to do that.
I've started working on a patch for the install doc[1] but have come across a couple of questions that I'm sure someone on the list could answer for me. 1) The docs refer to building a "dynamically linked Perl." Shouldn't the Perl be lowercase since we're talking about the interpreter, not the language? 2) In the same sentence, it says that a dynamically linked perl will have a libperl.a. Isn't that a libperl.so? Could someone describe the differences between libperl.a and libperl.so? I see that it exists in the apache source directory which makes me think it is used when building modperl. If I'm building mp statically linked, I shouldn't need libperl.a after I've installed, right? Is this the library that has been more appropriately named modperl.a in MP2? Cheers! William [1] http://perl.apache.org/docs/1.0/guide/install.html#Undefined_reference_to__PL_perl_destruct_level_ -- Knowmad Services Inc. http://www.knowmad.com -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
