Opened 14 years ago
Last modified 12 years ago
#23089 closed defect
perl5.*: should use -Duseshrplib — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | reg-macports.org@… | Owned by: | macports-tickets@… |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | 1.8.1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Port: | perl5.8, perl5.10, perl5.12, perl5.14 |
Description
perl5.8 and perl5.10 should be compiled with a shared perl library:
http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?README.macosx#Known_problems says: 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").
However, http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?README.macosx#libperl_and_Prebinding also says:
With 10.4 "Tiger" and newer, Apple has all but eliminated the performance penalty for non-prebound libraries.
As MacPorts requires OS X 10.5, performance is no longer a reason not to use -Duseshrplib.
However, not using -Duseshrplib breaks at least one port: http://trac.macports.org/ticket/23085