Perl installation problem

[Kent Stewart]

On Sunday 24 October 2004 10:37 pm, Rich Morin wrote:
> [I already sent this message to Perl-5-Porters, but I am copying it here,
> in case someone recognizes the problem or knows of a workaround.  I'm about
> ready to try fudging the Ports makefile to ask for version 5.8.5, but I'm
> rather loathe to do that, lest it introduce invisible errors... -r]
>
> We built and installed Perl 5.8.5 under FreeBSD 4.7 on a generic Pentium
> platform, using Perl sources from cpan.org (not the FreeBSD ports
> collection, which is back at 5.8.2).  The README.freebsd did not tell us to
> do anything special and did not indicate any known difficulties.

That is funny. When I look at my INDEX list, I see

Port:   perl-5.8.5
Path:   /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8

You must have fogotten something because perl-5.8.5 installed on my system 
just fine.

Kent

>
> We ran
>
>      % sh Configure -de
>      % make
>      % make test
>      % make install
>
> "make test" showed no errors that we saw.  Also, a simple "Hello World"
> script runs just fine.  However, we're getting failures with complex Perl
> scripts that use modules with shared libraries, as:
>
> When trying to run cpan shell, we get:
>
>      % cpan
>      /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
>
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-freebsd/auto/Term/ReadKey/ReadKey
>.so: Undefined symbol "perl_get_sv"
>
>
> Trying to use Movable Type weblog w/ MySQL database, we get:
>
>      /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1:
>      /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-freebsd/auto/DBI/DBI.so:
>      Undefined symbol "perl_get_sv"
>
> Same symbol; different library.  Does this look familiar to anyone?  The
> question is rather urgent, as the installation wiped out out ability to
> run Perl for many serious purposes...
>
> -r

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