Dear Monks,

I'm trying to build a completely static release of 5.8.7 on <unpopular version of Unix>, but seem to be failing. I've passed -Uusedl to configure, but it appears that this is being ignored - for example, all the ext modules say they are being built dynamically, and the test for Time::HiRes fail with a dynamic linker error.

Additionally, when built, the new binary seems about 50% slower when running very small scripts when compared to our old, static, 5.8.0 binary (I wish someone documented how they built it!). My guess is that this is due to the loading dynamic objects.

Can anyone help out?

In reply to static build of perl - how? by ghee2ghee

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