Re: getting libperl.so

Travis Bauer <trbauer(at)indiana(dot)edu> writes:
> compile plperl.so. But I can't because appearantly libperl.so is not
> configured properly on my machine. I'm using Mandrake 7.0, and the only
> copy of libperl.so that I can find is in: /usr/lib/apache (thanks to the
> mod-perl rpm).

Probably your main perl installation is not using a shared libperl?

You may have to pull down the perl source distribution and
configure/compile/install it yourself. Should be pretty painless,
really (certainly nothing to fear if you can build Postgres from
source ;-)). Don't forget to say "yes" when the configure script asks
you if you want a shared libperl. You can probably default all the
other answers, except maybe for the location you want the perl directory
tree placed ...

regards, tom lane

PS: be careful not to lose any Perl modules you may have installed
that don't come with the source distribution.