On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 06:43:02PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 07:22:19PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > >reassign 297257 libperl5.8 > >retitle 297257 libperl5.8: Does not install libperl.so.5.8 on amd64 > >thanks > > For various reasons, libperl5.8 does not install libperl.so.5.8 on any > arch outside of i386. Every other /usr/bin/perl is dynamically linked > to the library, which is included in the perl-base package. > > >,---- > >| dpkg-buildpackage: host architecture is amd64 > >| debian/rules clean > >| eperl -P -o debian/rules debian/rules.in > >| eperl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open > >shared object file: No such file or directory > >| make: *** [debian/rules] Error 127 > > Why is eperl dynamically linking to libperl.so (rather than the > libperl.so.5.8 soname)?
Brendan, thank you for your explanations. I already closed this bug because the eperl package from http://debian-amd64.alioth.debian.org/pure64 is linked against libperl.so.5.8, so it looks like submitter had his own compiled package which is broken. Denis
