Olivier PRENANT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem is that at link time, ld complains about text segment beeing
> written to in Dynaloader.
> I agree this sounded stupid. But I can't think of something else.
> This is with perl-5.6.1 FWIW

Ah.  This is a bug in Perl's build process: even if you request a shared
library, it builds DynaLoader as static code.  My own notes about
installing perl 5.6.1 on HPUX read:

        make
        fix DynaLoader.o per below
        make test
        make install

At least in 5.6.1, even with "build shared" request, DynaLoader.o is not
made with +z, which will cause plperl to fail.  To fix, simply go into
perl-5.6.1/ext/DynaLoader, rm DynaLoader.o, and "make".  I wonder why
toplevel makefile thinks it's okay to build DynaLoader static??


I'm just now in the middle of installing Perl 5.8.0, and it seems that
the oversight has been fixed; DynaLoader is now built sharable:

cc -c   -Ae -D_HPUX_SOURCE -Wl,+vnocompatwarnings -DDEBUGGING -I/usr/local/include 
-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -g   -DVERSION=\"1.04\" 
-DXS_VERSION=\"1.04\" +Z "-I../.."  -DPERL_CORE -DLIBC="/lib/libc.sl" DynaLoader.c

There seem to be some other problems --- 7.2 plperl dumps core for me
even with the above fix.  Still looking into that (I'm sorta hoping that
5.8.0 will fix it, but won't know for a little while...)

                        regards, tom lane

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