On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 01:42:16PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> libxt6 uses debconf in its preinst script. Debconf in turn uses the Perl
> module Text::Iconv (to perform character set conversion for the
> presentation of appropriately localized template choices and
> descriptions, perhaps among other functions). Text::Iconv is an XS
> module in the version of Perl in sarge, meaning that it's written in C
> and is therefore an ELF object linked in by the Perl interpreter when
> needed. By default, Perl performs "lazy" loading of XS modules -- that
> is, it assumes that all the required symbols will be resolved without
> actually checking.
> Unfortunately, there does not appear to be a way to programmatically turn
> off lazy module loading. That is, we can't just add a line of code to
> Debconf that says "don't do lazy loading".
I'm not terribly familiar with the way that debconf operates, but I'm
guessing that the breakage is in dpkg-preconfigure, so simply adding
$ENV{PERL_DL_NONLAZY} = 1;
as the first line of the BEGIN block at the start of that program should
fix the problem.
--bod
