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[Josef Wolf <jw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 07:28:18PM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> Josef Wolf escribió:
> > Thanks for the answer, Christian!
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 04:15:20PM -0400, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
> > > Josef Wolf escribió:
> > >
> > > > Was this library moved to a different package?
> > > No, it was removed, it has absolutely no use.
> >
> > I think I have a use for it: I have a home-grown XS library which
> > provides functionality from a C library to perl.  Linking everything
> > into one binary saves lots of pain when it comes to deployment of
> > such a program.
>
> It does not really work the way you expect.. see:
>
> http://people.redhat.com/drepper/no_static_linking.html

OK, at least the security aspects have a point.

The question now becomes, how to (painless) deploy a perl XS library
which makes callbacks into perl.  That means, the XS library needs
access to the my_perl variable, which is declared as

  static PerlInterpreter *my_perl;

in the original libperl.so

Any hints?
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