Hi, I hope this is the right list. I can't seem to build apache with mod_perl. Is it just me? I must be dumm, or just a newbie. I eventually want ssl, php4, etc., but after problems developed, I went back to basics. I'm using apache_1.3.20 and mod_perl-1.25 from tarballs. I'm running debian. Any help & advice muchly appreciated, thanks in advance. Here's the latest attempt: # perl Makefile.PL and then I've got errors: ======== Error Output for sanity check ======== cd ..; gcc -DLINUX=22 -DUSE_HSREGEX -DUSE_EXPAT -I./lib/expat-lite -DNO_DL_NEEDED -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -DMOD_PERL -o helpers/dummy helpers/dummy.c `perl /usr/local/src/mod_perl-1.25/src/modules/perl/ldopts ` -lm /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make: *** [dummy] Error 1 ============= End of Error Report ============= Aborting! output of perl -V: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.4.5-ac9, archname=i386-linux uname='linux duende 2.4.5-ac9 #1 thu jun 21 00:52:39 est 2001 i686 unknown ' config_args='-Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=i386-linux -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.6.1 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Uusesfio -Dotherlibdirs=/usr/lib/perl5/5.6:/usr/lib/perl5/5.005 -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.so.5.6.1 -Dd_dosuid -des' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64', optimize='-O2', cppflags='-DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='2.95.4 20010604 (Debian prerelease)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt perllibs=-ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt libc=/lib/libc-2.2.3.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so.5.6.1 Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES Built under linux Compiled at Jun 22 2001 18:52:37 @INC: /usr/local/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.6.1 /usr/share/perl/5.6.1 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/5.6 /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005