To: mykarz@miyabara.com
cc: pgsql-interfaces@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Plperl make fails with Error1 at plperl.o (7.0.3) 
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Comments: In-reply-to "Michael Miyabara-McCaskey" <mykarz@miyabara.com>
	message dated "Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:58:54 -0800"
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:12:11 -0500
Message-ID: <2715.976497131@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>

"Michael Miyabara-McCaskey" <mykarz@miyabara.com> writes:
> ... I am now getting the error message that:

> ERROR: Load of file /usr/local/pgsql/lib/plperl.so failed: shared object not
> open

Hm.  That's a pretty unhelpfully worded error message, isn't it?
You may be able to find a more extensive error report in the
postmaster's log file, assuming you routed the postmaster's stderr
to someplace other than /dev/null.

But I'll bet that the real problem is not with plperl.so but with Perl's
libperl.so, which plperl.so depends on.  On the Perl versions I've used,
a shared library version of libperl is *not* built unless you
specifically request it while configuring the Perl build.  On some
platforms you get a usable shlib anyway, on some you don't.

Another possibility is that libperl.so exists but is not being found
by the dynamic loader; you may need to run ldconfig or set
LD_LIBRARY_PATH or some such to include the proper directory in the
Perl install in the search path.

			regards, tom lane