Re: PostgreSQL 8.2.5 compile problem

Madison Kelly <linux(at)alteeve(dot)com> writes:
> gcc -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
> -Wdeclaration-after-statement -Wendif-labels -fno-strict-aliasing -fpic
> -shared -Wl,-soname,libplperl.so.0 plperl.o spi_internal.o SPI.o
> -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE -L../../../src/port
> /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -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

> After this error, I searched for 'libplperl.so.0.0' but couldn't find
> it (I did updatedb first).

It's complaining about the lack of libperl.so ... the other one is what
it wants to build.

> The 'configure' step seemed to be okay:

AFAICT, our configure just believes what perl's ExtUtils::Embed and
Config modules tell it ... it doesn't actually test the results. So I'm
thinking either libperl.so isn't installed, or it isn't where those
modules say it is --- which would be a Perl misconfiguration.

regards, tom lane