> -----Original Message----- > From: Roderich Schupp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 10 September 2006 17:24 > To: par@perl.org > Cc: IvorW > Subject: Re: Problems building PAR on Debian > > > > On 9/10/06, Steffen Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > IvorW schrieb: > > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl > > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status > > Do you need to install the libperl-dev package, i.e. the > perl headers > > for this? I might be totally off, though. (But I don't think I am.) > > Judging from your Perl version (5.8.4) you're running Debian sarge. > Steffen is right, you need to install packages libperl5.8 and > libperl-dev - > libperl.{a,so} are not in Debian's perl-base package because the > /usr/bin/perl in there is statically linked.
I am indeed running Debian sarge, though one of the boxes I want PAR on is running vanilla Knoppix 4.0.2. Thanks to both of you for your help. I'll try this when I get home to my boxen.
