Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1640 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 01 August 2008 18:56:49 Josef Wolf wrote:
> The "static" there has pretty much to do with linking.  Because of the
> "static" keyword the variable is not visible/accessible outside of the
> compilation unit.  Therefore it is only accessible by libperl.so but
> not accessible by my XSUBs.

And linking statically changes this how?

"static" affects scope, yes, but how you link it is irrelevant

> How can I be sure that debian/ubuntu/mandrake/redhat/whatever use the
> same compiler flags and linker flags as suse?  They can even change the
> flags between releases.  So I have to build and maintain a dist package
> for every release of every distro I want to support.  And I have to
> rebuild every time a distro ships a new release.  That would be even
> more pain than rebuild every time it is installed.

You could use the build service for it. It is capable of building for multiple 
distributions.

I am not familiar with the peculiarities of building perl addons, but after a 
quick read of the "perlxstut" man page (and a quick test), it looks like the 
h2xs command will generate a Makefile.PL that extracts the compilation 
information you need and puts it into a Makefile. That, combined with the 
build service, should allow you to build packages for all distributions that 
will get automatically updated and rebuilt if there are updates to the 
dependencies

Anders
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