Sorry if this is a known problem, but I didn't see anything in the archives and I've installed these a bunch of times before without a problem Mandrake 8.0 perl-5.6.1 mod_perl-1.25 apache-1.3.20 I had problems compiling Apache::Request with the default Mandrake perl/apache packages, so I downloaded the latest stable versions and built using the "flexible" way where mod_perl is statically linked (but I do enable DSO in case there are other modules I'll need later) things seem to work pretty well, but if I try to use Apache::Request in my startup.pl script (or a module) I get the following: [Thu Jun 28 11:20:17 2001] [error] Can't load '/usr/contrib/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/Apache/Request/Request.so' for module Apache::Request: libapreq.so.0: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/contrib/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 206. at /usr/contrib/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/mod_perl.pm line 14 Compilation failed in require at /usr/contrib/httpd/conf/startup.pl line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/contrib/httpd/conf/startup.pl line 8. Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 1. The file exists and I've checked permissions (both looking at the directory structure and su - nobody and ran nm on Request.so) they look fine. The directories it's using (/usr/contrib) is where I have my version of perl installed. I can also run startup.pl outside of mod_perl and it works fine, I got a similar error from Image::Magick, so it seems to be a problem with the dynaloader module when it's embedded in mod_perl. Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]