[SOLVED] xchat_2.4.3 problem during make

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Can anybody tell me what the problem below means, and/or how to fix it?

/bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=link --tag=CC gcc -g -O2 -Wall -pipe -o perl.la -rpath /usr/lib/xchat/plugins -avoid-version -module perl.lo -Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -L/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lcrypt -ldl -Wl,--export-dynamic -ldl -lglib-2.0

*** Warning: Linking the shared library perl.la against the
*** static library /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a is not portable!
gcc -shared .libs/perl.o -L/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/perl/5.8/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.a -L/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE -lperl -lm -lpthread -lcrypt -ldl /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so -Wl,-E -Wl,--export-dynamic -Wl,-soname -Wl,perl.so -o .libs/perl.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[3]: *** [perl.la] Error 1

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Fixed!


/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl

That's the only bit I needed to understand.

Dan Espen on comp.os.linux.help informed me that that means it was looking for a file caled lperl.so.

$ apt-file search libperl.so
libperl-dev: usr/lib/libperl.so
$ sudo apt-get install libperl-dev

Now compiles fine!

[tonybaqain]

this works great, but if the error still occur then you have to do some steps :


sudo updatedb
sudo locate libperl.so
you'll find something like, depending on the libperl-dev version


/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8
/usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8.8

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.8 /usr/lib/libperl.so
sudo ldconfig
have fun :)