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From: Chris Houser <chouser@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Shared perl library
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Geert Bevin wrote:                    [Sun Nov 18 2001,  7:13:59AM EST]         
> to build perl support inside postgres it needs the shared version of
> libperl (libperl.so).

One option would be to create a new libperl ebuild.  Another would be to
extend the current perl ebuild to always build a .so, but to not
necessarily use it for the perl binary itself.

I don't know which is better, or if it would really be all that bad for
/usr/bin/perl to use a perl.so.

--Chouser