>> "MH" == Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> From the exim mailing list:
MH> |Perl keeps around the various compiler and library
MH> |options that are necessary for building Perl extensions. If "-lgdbm"
MH> |is included in there then Perl itself was compiled with "-lgdbm" and
MH> |I would expect that
MH> | ldd /usr/bin/perl
MH> |would have a line showing a dependency on something like libgdbm.so.2.
MH> that is correct on my system.
MH> |I suppose it's possible that the Debian crowd messed up their Perl
MH> |build and linked statically against libgdbm.a when *they* built Perl
MH> |but that you don't have libgdbm.a installed on your system.
MH> Is that a bug in the perl package?
No. If it had been linked statically, then ldd wouldn't show it.
ldd - print shared library dependencies
Install libgdbmg1-dev and compilation will work (at least there
shouldn't be a problem about gdbm any more).
Ciao,
Martin
