fixes the way that third-party apps like apache link in perl .so's
(and previously did not get libperl linked in.)
NOTE - you neeed to recompile all your perl stuff - all the p5-*
por4ts with C code, and things like mod_perl.
than ".so". The old extension conflicted with well-established
naming conventions for dynamically loadable modules.
The "clean" targets continue to remove ".so" files too, to deal with
old systems.
1) Fix up the NOSHARED stuff (bde)
2) Accomodate CFLAGS (vanilla)
3) Provide separate files for i386 and alpha (Doug Rabson)
In case 3, the supplied files were corrupted, but the concepts
sound enough, so I just copied what exists into
config.SH-{elf|aout}.{i386|alpha}. Alpha team, go ahead and do what
is necessary on config.SH-elf.alpha. :-)
(Tested by make -j12 buildworld on a 4-cpu SMP box).
Address (but not solve) ELF shareable objects causing perl to
dump core. (I have a heck of a lot to learn about ELF).
Lots of help by: bde, jkh, jb and others