Re: [GENERAL] PL/Perl without shared libperl.a

2001-05-12 Thread Alan Young
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Tom Lane wrote: > I believe you could actually use a non-shared libperl.a on Intel Linux; > just dike out the test for shared-ness in plperl's Makefile.PL. > The reason it's there is we couldn't think of a direct test for > position-independent code, which is the real requirem

Re: [GENERAL] PL/Perl without shared libperl.a

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As far as I know, there is no simple way to test whether libperl.a is > compiled as position independent code or not. But it would be fairly > easy to test whether you can build a shared library using libperl.a, > by writing a little test case which

Re: [GENERAL] PL/Perl without shared libperl.a

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Ian Lance Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I believe you could actually use a non-shared libperl.a on Intel Linux; >> just dike out the test for shared-ness in plperl's Makefile.PL. >> The reason it's there is we couldn't think of a direct test for >> position-independent code, which is the r

Re: [GENERAL] PL/Perl without shared libperl.a

2001-05-11 Thread Tom Lane
Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone got advice on building postgres 7.1 with PL/Perl support > WITHOUT having one's perl installation built with a shared libperl.a? Try repeating the Perl build with shared-lib selected and then just installing the resulting libperl.so beside l