could not load library plperl.so

On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 05:52:14PM -0700, CSN wrote:

createlang: language installation failed: ERROR:
could not load library
"/usr/lib/postgresql/plperl.so": libperl.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

You need your Perl installation to have libperl as a shared library. On
some linux distros, it works to install the perl-dev or perl-devel
package. On other systems, you may need to recompile your Perl package.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"I call it GNU/Linux. Except the GNU/ is silent." (Ben Reiter)

CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> writes:

createlang: language installation failed: ERROR:
could not load library
"/usr/lib/postgresql/plperl.so": libperl.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

Notice it's complaining about libperl.so, not plperl.so.

This is probably because libperl.so isn't in your ldconfig search path.
Before PG 8.0 it's necessary to add the directory where Perl keeps that
file to your ldconfig configuration.

If you *are* using 8.0, then please explain exactly what platform
you're on and what your Perl installation is.

regards, tom lane

--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:

CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> writes:

createlang: language installation failed: ERROR:
could not load library
"/usr/lib/postgresql/plperl.so": libperl.so:

cannot

open shared object file: No such file or directory

Notice it's complaining about libperl.so, not
plperl.so.

This is probably because libperl.so isn't in your
ldconfig search path.
Before PG 8.0 it's necessary to add the directory
where Perl keeps that
file to your ldconfig configuration.

If you *are* using 8.0, then please explain exactly
what platform
you're on and what your Perl installation is.

regards, tom lane

Yeah, I did 'ln
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/lib/libperl.so' and 'createlang plperl dbname'
worked without complaining (I should probably use
ldconfig instead). I'm using 7.4.7 (will probably
upgrade to 8.x pretty soon).

CSN

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