Re: perl 5.6.0 almost working!

From: Peter Eisentraut <e99re41(at)DoCS(dot)UU(dot)SE>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "John M(dot) Flinchbaugh" <glynis(at)butterfly(dot)hjsoft(dot)com>, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: perl 5.6.0 almost working!
Date: 2000-04-06 13:20:46
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.02A.10004061511000.21389-100000@Falk.DoCS.UU.SE
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On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Has anyone else tried to use plperl? Either success or failure
> reports would be useful at this point.

Failure. (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1)

Looks like this:
$ make
....
Running Mkbootstrap for plperl ()
chmod 644 plperl.bs
LD_RUN_PATH="" gcc -o blib/arch/auto/plperl/plperl.so -G plperl.o
eloglvl.o SPI.o
/usr/sup/gnu/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris/5.00404/auto/Opcode/Opcode.so
-L../../../src/interfaces/libpq -lpq
/usr/sup/gnu/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris/5.00404/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a
-L/usr/sup/gnu/lib/perl5/sun4-solaris/5.00404/CORE -lperl -lsocket -lnsl
-lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -ldb
ld: fatal: library -ldb: not found
ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to
blib/arch/auto/plperl/plperl.so
make: *** [blib/arch/auto/plperl/plperl.so] Error 1

(There is indeed no libdb of any sort on this system AFAICT. I'm just a
pedestrian though, does anyone know what it is supposed to be for?)

That sure sounds like Perl once again trying to circumvent the autoconf
logic.

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