<html> <head> <title>The Exim FAQ Section 23</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#F8F8F8" text="#00005A" link="#FF6600" alink="#FF9933" vlink="#990000"> <h1>The Exim FAQ</h1> <a href="FAQ.html#TOC">Contents</a> <a href="FAQ_22.html">Previous</a> <a href="FAQ_24.html">Next</a> <hr><br> <h2><a href="FAQ.html#TOC379">94. BSDI</a></h2> <p> <a name="TOC380" href="FAQ.html#TOC380">Q9401:</a> On BSDI 4.0, Exim built with Perl support exits with the error message </p> <pre> ./exim: can't load library 'libperl.so'</pre> <p> <font color="#00BB00">A9401:</font> You probably compiled perl5 yourself, without looking into </p> <pre> /usr/src/contrib/perl5/perl5.004_02/hints/bsdos.sh</pre> <p> first. The problem is that the command </p> <pre> perl5 -MExtUtils::Embed -e ldopts</pre> <p> doesn't give you sufficient flags to link something with libperl. Since 5.004_02 the <i>hints/bsdos.sh</i> file has changed to adapt to the changes between BSDI 3.1 and 4.0, but it is still not entirely right. </p> <p> The solution is, when you compile perl, change the <tt>ccdlflags</tt> variable in config.sh to: </p> <pre> -rdynamic -Wl,-rpath,/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00502/i386-bsdos/CORE</pre> <p> (or something similar). Alternatively, you can run <i>./Configure</i> and answering the question <i>Any special flags to pass to cc to use dynamic loading?</i> with the above line. It is not known what <b>-rdynamic</b> means (it's not apparently documented in any man page), but that's what BSDI guys did to compile perl5 which comes with BSDI 4.0 distribution. </p> <hr><br> <a href="FAQ.html#TOC">Contents</a> <a href="FAQ_22.html">Previous</a> <a href="FAQ_24.html">Next</a> </body> </html>
