Howto Build Perl "Statically" Under Home Directory

[monkfan]

Most revered monks,
I've already installed Perl version 5.8.7 in my home directory. But it is build dynamically:

bioinfo@sf3:~/.perl/bin[504]$ file perl
perl:  ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC Version 1, dynamically linked, 
+not stripped

Is there a way to build it "statically" so that all the Perl library can be installed in my home in whole. Unlike now, those libraries has to be called from other places:

bioinfo@sf3:~/.perl/bin[506]$ ldd perl
        libsocket.so.1 =>        /usr/lib/libsocket.so.1
        libnsl.so.1 =>   /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1
        libdl.so.1 =>    /usr/lib/libdl.so.1
        libm.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libm.so.1
        libc.so.1 =>     /usr/lib/libc.so.1
        libmp.so.2 =>    /usr/lib/libmp.so.2

This dynamically build Perl has given me a problem, because the Apache server where my CGI script resides (needing newer Perl compiler) and those libraries are stored in different machines in my office network.

I've looked through ./Configure --help, but it doesn't seem to indicate how to build it statically.

[Tux]

You can try to call Configure -Uusedl, but I think that will also disable the use of dynamic loaded modules

You mighjt also need to move all modules from dynamic_ext to static_ext

All-in-all I don't think this is the best approach. Better would be to use $LD_LIBRARY_PATH or whatever variable your system supports for the search path of your dynamic libraries.