Re: Problems compiling perl 5.004.04 - ld: cannot open -lnsl

To: Sudhakar Chandrasekharan <thaths@netscape.com>
Cc: Debian User <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Problems compiling perl 5.004.04 - ld: cannot open -lnsl
From: Stephen Zander <srz@mckesson.com>
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 1997 17:37:55 -0800
Message-id: <[🔎] m0xdmiK-00003sC@debian>
Reply-to: stephen.zander@interlock.mckesson.com
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Dec 1997 11:03:24 PST." <[🔎] 3486FE7C.CFB2F162@netscape.com>

Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote:
> I am trying to compile perl 5.004.04 and am having problems.  My
> compiler is unable to locate -lnsl (for some reason).  But I'm sure that
> the reqd library is in /lib

The linker is looking for /usr/lib/libnsl.so.  This is a symbolic link to
/usr/lib/libnsl.so.1.  It's created when you install libc5-dev. Have you
done so?


Stephen
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