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Re: Where is libperl.so?



On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 10:55:37AM +1200, Glenn Ramsey wrote:
>I use some software, on a stable/testing machine, that contains an
>embedded perl interpretter. It used to work fine when I had perl 5.8.1 
>but after upgrading to 5.8.3 it no longer works.
>
>The problem appears to be that libperl.so does not exist in
>$Config{archlib}/CORE ie /usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE. However I can make
>the software work by symlinking /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8
>to /usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE/libperl.so .
>
>According to 'man perlembed' the "perl library" should be in
>$Config{archlib}/CORE which is where the software looks for it. I
>assume by "perl library" that the man page means libperl.so.
>
>Is this a bug in the software I'm using or in the Debian perl packages?

apt-get install libperl-dev

--bod



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