Perl 5.8.4 issues in FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE

[Anton Berezin]

Hey,

On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 09:43:27PM +0200, Anders Nordby wrote:

> 2) After installing it and running use.perl port, perl does not run
> anymore if you set LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
> 
> # perl -v
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: perl: Undefined symbol "PL_exit_flags"
> 
> By moving /usr/lib/libperl* out of the away, or unsetting
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH, this issue is bypassed.
> 
> Are these issues known? Are a number of LD_LIBRARY_PATH using users
> using old libperl without knowing it? Should they? Etc.

It looks like you have encountered the situation described in detail
here:

  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1630529+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-questions/20031214.freebsd-questions

\Anton.
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