Dear Vox-Tech: I have been trying to install a Perl module that is required to run a Database. This module is called "GD" I have been able to install all the required libraries and modules that this module requires and at the end I got this error message.
[rioja GD-1.38]$ make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux -I/usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 -e 'use Test::Harness qw(&runtests $verbose); $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;' t/*.t t/GD................Can't load './blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD: ./blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so: undefined symbol: gdImageStringFT at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 200. at t/GD.t line 12 Compilation failed in require at t/GD.t line 12. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/GD.t line 12. t/GD................dubious Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) DIED. FAILED tests 1-10 Failed 10/10 tests, 0.00% okay Failed Test Status Wstat Total Fail Failed List of failed ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --- t/GD.t 255 65280 10 10 100.00% 1-10 Failed 1/1 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 10/10 subtests failed, 0.00% okay. make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2 [rioja GD-1.38]$ I found out that according to one of the Bioinformatics wizards at Cold Spring Harbor the problem is Perl: "This problem has been reported under some versions of SuSE and RedHat Linux (it appears to be related to a particular RPM distribution of Perl). Perl was built incorrectly, causing some but not all loadable modules to fail. The only solution I know of is to rebuild Perl correctly from scratch and reinstall all previously-installed modules." Has anybody experienced this? Is there a way to get around this other that building Perl. I don't know but for an inexperienced user like me, rebuilding Perl is not a trivial exercise. BTY I am using the latest version of Caldera (Workstation 3.1) and I am getting next Friday a copy of RedHat 7.2. But I am almost sure 7.2 will have the same problem. TIA Alfredo _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech