Net::LibIDN

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 09), Daniel Bye said:
> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:30:50PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> > 
> >   CPAN.pm: Going to build T/TH/THOR/Net-LibIDN-0.07.tar.gz
> > 
> > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lidn
> 
> This kind of suggests that libidn isn't yet in your ldconfig cache.

No, it doesn't; ldconfig is used by the run-time linker (ld-elf.so.1),
not the compile-time linker (ld, usually via gcc).  What's missing is a
-L/usr/local/lib someplace, which is one reason that using ports is a
good idea: ports know where their dependencies live :)

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	Dan Nelson
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