plperl.so

OK, so I've given up on our 7.0.3 installation and I'm looking at the 7.2 one
that we have.

I know it was compiled with "with-perl" on.

The ...src/pl/plperl directory looks like this:

> ls -l
total 184
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 754 Sep 16 2001 GNUmakefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 17459 Aug 16 14:21 Makefile
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 2317 Aug 26 2001 Makefile.PL
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 440 Dec 19 2000 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 2402 Aug 16 14:21 SPI.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 7396 Aug 16 14:21 SPI.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 1211 Jun 8 2001 SPI.xs
drwxr-xr-x 4 nishad other 512 Aug 16 14:21 blib/
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 325 Jun 8 2001 eloglvl.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 78 Jun 8 2001 eloglvl.h
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 2008 Aug 16 14:21 eloglvl.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 0 Aug 16 14:21 plperl.bs
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 24021 Jan 24 2002 plperl.c
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 18468 Aug 16 14:21 plperl.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 0 Aug 16 14:21 pm_to_blib
-rw-r--r-- 1 nishad other 7519 Nov 5 2001 ppport.h

and

> ls /usr/local/pgsql/lib
libecpg.a libpq++.a libpsqlodbc.a
libecpg.so@ libpq++.so@ libpsqlodbc.so@
libecpg.so.3@ libpq++.so.4@ libpsqlodbc.so.0@
libecpg.so.3.3.0* libpq++.so.4.0* libpsqlodbc.so.0.27*
libpgeasy.a libpq.a plperl.so*
libpgeasy.so@ libpq.so@ plpgsql.so*
libpgeasy.so.2@ libpq.so.2@
libpgeasy.so.2.2* libpq.so.2.2*

Bear in mind
> uname -a
SunOS stephanus 5.8 Generic_108528-06 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-4

(some of the comments imply that linux would get .so extensions,
but others might not, though I note we seem to have a plperl.so
in the lib.)

But:

> createlang plperl Text
ERROR: stat failed on file '$libdir/plperl': No such file or directory
createlang: language installation failed

...and no, I'm not prepared to use python :-). The function I
have in mind is very simple since I do know perl quite well...

Thanks for all the help so far,
--Cindy
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ctmoore(at)uci(dot)edu