Re: Compiling 8.0.1 on Ubuntu AMD_64

Tim Bowden <tim(dot)bowden(at)westnet(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> I'm trying to compile 8.0.1 on a 64bit Ubuntu system and get the following error:
> gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fpic -shared -Wl,-soname,libplperl.so.0 plperl.o spi_internal.o SPI.o -L../../../src/port -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -L/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE -o libplperl.so.0.0
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl

Is there a libperl.so or libperl.a in /usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE? If not,
but you see one in some related directory, then our configure script
messed up (or Ubuntu is using a whacked-out Perl setup). If there's
none to be found anywhere, you have an incomplete Perl installation.

Another possibility is that you have only libperl.a and need libperl.so,
but offhand I'd not expect that particular error message if that were
the issue.

regards, tom lane