Yes - I did see this - but the resulting Makefile doesn't seem to use it. There is a comment about it being a MakeMaker parameter, but it isn't used anywhere else in the Makefile. I have got around this particular issue by adding -Dstatic_ext="Time/HiRes" when configuring - but this isn't really my problem, and there must be a better way than specifying every single module this way.

My problem is that I want a static build of perl (executable and modules) that I can send out to my clients - specifically, I need libraries such as curses, openssl and expat, but would rather include them statically in the perl executable than have to use shared objects (some clients may already have these libraries, but older/newer versions, and I don't want to trample all over them). I can live with inflated perl binary sizes.

When compiling some of the modules we need, I recall that at least one required a version 5.8.x release of perl - so 5.6.x is a non-starter, unfortuately.

Thanks for the suggestion, though ;>