Re: Shared object "libpq.so.3" not found

On Jul 31, 1:34 am, t(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane) wrote:
> marko <marko(dot)onl(dot)(dot)(dot)(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 and I have Postgresql 8.2.4 installed with
> > Perl v5.8.8.  I'm trying to test DBD-Pg-2.8.7 after compilation and I
> > get this error after 'make test':
> > #     Error:  Can't load '/usr/home/markuser/DBD-Pg-2.8.7/blib/arch/
> > auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module DBD::Pg: Shared object "libpq.so.3" not
> > found, required by "Pg.so" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/
> > DynaLoader.pm line 230.
>
> libpq.so.3 corresponds to the libpq version that was shipped in
> PG release series 7.3.x and 7.4.x.  8.2 provides libpq.so.5.
>
> Your subsequent comments make it pretty clear that you've got
> (at least portions of) both 7.x and 8.x PG installations on your
> machine.  I'd suggest flushing all traces of the older one and
> then rebuilding DBD::Pg from a clean start.  Somehow it's been
> seizing on the older PG installation as the one to link to...
>
>                         regards, tom lane
>

OK... I can't say that I remember installing a 7.x PG version. I
wanted to make sure there wasn't some FreeBSD bug out there relative
to these packages. Thanks.