Re: general trouble installing languages

On Tue, 2002-09-17 at 18:46, Cindy wrote:
>
> I suspect at this point I may need to recompile things?  I'm not sure
> what the trouble is.  Can I try the directions in
...
> The error message is now a bit more detailed:
>
> > createlang -L /usr/local/pgsql/lib -d Text plperl
> ERROR:  Load of file /usr/local/pgsql/lib/plperl.so failed: ld.so.1: /usr/local
> /pgsql/bin/postmaster: fatal: libperl.so.1: open failed: No such file or direct
> ory
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^

It is missing libperl, that is the shared library version of Perl
itself.  This is not part of PostgreSQL, so rebuilding PostgreSQL will
do you no good at all.

You need to build Perl from source or install a shared library package
of it.

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