Re: ARSperl for HP-UX

[Joel M. <jm...@ca...>]

> 
> As noted, ARSperl has only been "officially" tested on Solaris 2.X.  I tried
> installing it for HP-UX 9.04 but get the following error:
> 
> ld: DP-Relative Code in file /ford/thishost/u/remedy/api/lib/libar.a(ar.o) - Sha
> red Library must be Position-Independent
> *** Error code 1
> 
> Anybody working on an HP-UX version?

The problem is that it is unable to create a shared library from the
distributed ars static library.  On a typical system with elf
binaries, each object file must be compiled with -fpic to be position
independant in memory.  Since we can't recompile libar.a, the next
best thing would be to build the extension right into the perl
executable.  I'll haven't done that before, but it shouldn't require
too many modifications.

joel murphy