It appears that something is messed up with regard to Perl support on my system. Two things are happening, which may or may not be related. 1) There is a complaint during make that ***** * Cannot build PL/Perl because libperl is not a shared library. * Skipped. ***** I'm running a pretty vanilla RedHat 6.1 setup. What should I do about that? 2) Because _something_ was made for Perl, the 'make install' has to be root. Okay. But this is leaving some stuff behind that is owned by root. When I attempt a subsequent 'make clean; make' I get into permissions trouble, and have to delete these things manually. These events are illustrated in an script(1) capture file, which I have edited down to a version I have attached here. ++ kevin -- Kevin O'Gorman (805) 650-6274 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Permanent e-mail forwarder: mailto:Kevin.O'[EMAIL PROTECTED] At school: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~kogorman/index.html Web: http://trixie.kosman.via.ayuda.com/~kevin/index.html "There is a freedom lying beyond circumstance, derived from the direct intuition that life can be grounded upon its absorption in what is changeless amid change" -- Alfred North Whitehead
Script started on Fri Nov 10 10:53:00 2000 [kevin@glynnis OLAP]$ cd pgsql [kevin@glynnis pgsql]$ make clean ... snip ... [kevin@glynnis pgsql]$ make ... snip ... make[4]: Leaving directory `/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src/interfaces/libpq' make -f Makefile all make[4]: Entering directory `/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5' Skip blib/lib/Pg.pm (unchanged) /usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503 /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/ExtUtils/xsubpp -typemap /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap Pg.xs >xstmp.c && mv xstmp.c Pg.c cc -c -I../libpq -I../../include -Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -I/usr/local/include -O2 -DVERSION=\"1.8.0\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.8.0\" -fpic -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/CORE Pg.c Running Mkbootstrap for Pg () chmod 644 Pg.bs LD_RUN_PATH="/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/../libpq" cc -o blib/arch/auto/Pg/Pg.so -shared -L/usr/local/lib Pg.o -L/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/../libpq -lpq /usr/bin/ld: cannot open output file blib/arch/auto/Pg/Pg.so: Permission denied collect2: ld returned 1 exit status make[4]: *** [blib/arch/auto/Pg/Pg.so] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory `/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5' make[3]: *** [all] Error 2 make[3]: Leaving directory `/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5' make[2]: *** [all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory `/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src/interfaces' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src' make: *** [all] Error 2 [kevin@glynnis pgsql]$ su Password: [root@glynnis pgsql]# cd src/interfaces/perl5 [root@glynnis perl5]# ls -l total 252 drwxr-xr-x 2 kevin users 1024 Nov 9 08:55 CVS -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 3517 May 31 20:07 Changes -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 2080 Oct 24 09:59 GNUmakefile -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 137 May 31 20:07 MANIFEST -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 21422 Nov 10 10:58 Makefile -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 1601 Jun 10 11:01 Makefile.PL -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 0 Nov 10 10:58 Pg.bs -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 72362 Nov 10 10:58 Pg.c -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 85208 Nov 10 10:58 Pg.o -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 18124 Sep 27 1998 Pg.pm -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 18921 Oct 24 10:00 Pg.xs -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 4824 Sep 27 1998 README drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1024 Nov 9 09:07 blib drwxr-xr-x 3 kevin users 1024 Oct 29 12:09 examples -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 0 Nov 10 10:58 pm_to_blib -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 7795 Oct 24 10:00 ppport.h -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 7095 Mar 10 2000 test.pl -rw-r--r-- 1 kevin users 381 Sep 27 1998 typemap [root@glynnis perl5]# rm -rf blib [root@glynnis perl5]# exit exit [kevin@glynnis pgsql]$ make ... snip ... make -f Makefile all make[4]: Entering directory `/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src/pl/plperl' ***** * Cannot build PL/Perl because libperl is not a shared library. * Skipped. ***** make[4]: Leaving directory `/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src/pl/plperl' make[3]: Leaving directory `/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src/pl/plperl' make[2]: Leaving directory `/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src/pl' make[1]: Leaving directory `/PG/OLAP/pgsql/src' All of PostgreSQL successfully made. Ready to install. [kevin@glynnis pgsql]$ su Password: [root@glynnis pgsql]# make install ... snip ... Thank you for choosing PostgreSQL, the most advanced open source database engine. [root@glynnis pgsql]# exit exit [kevin@glynnis pgsql]$ Script done on Fri Nov 10 11:01:23 2000