Perl / Webmin: ld-elf.so.1 issue

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org
Mon Oct 3 07:20:21 PDT 2005


Mark Edwards <mark at antsclimbtree.com> writes:

> On Oct 3, 2005, at 1:33 AM, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > Mark Edwards <mark at antsclimbtree.com> writes:
> >
> >
> >> I am getting the following error in the browser when trying to use
> >> webmin's crontab editing feature:
> >>
> >> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/perl: Undefined symbol
> >> "PL_exit_flags"
> >> crontab: "/usr/local/lib/webmin/cron/cron_editor.pl" exited with
> >> status 1
> >>
> >> I am running perl 5.8.7 from ports, and I have done the whole routine
> >> with setting use.perl port and perl_after_upgrade.
> >>
> >> I notice that there are two /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1 files on my
> >> machine:
> >>
> >> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    85940 Feb 11  2005 ld-elf.so.1
> >> -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel    85908 Jun 29  2004 ld-elf.so.1.old
> >>
> >> Is that normal?  I reinstalled the perl port to no avail.
> >>
> >
> > Are your ports up to date?
> > [From an up-to-date ports tree?]
> 
> Yes, up to date from cvs as of a week ago or so.  Can anyone suggest
> a way for me to troubleshoot what exactly the problem is?

Well, that symbol is definitely supposed to be present in your perl
executable.  

[E.g., 
[  > strings /usr/local/bin/perl|grep exit_fl
[  PL_exit_flags
[  >

Do you have any perl-related knobs in make.conf, or in pkgtools.conf
(if you used portupgrade for installing)?



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