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could not load library plperl.so

From
CSN
Date:
I configured postgres base+opt with '--with-perl',
make'd, and make install'ed. Trying to add plperl:

createlang -U postgres plperl links

I get this error:

createlang: language installation failed: ERROR:
could not load library
"/usr/lib/postgresql/plperl.so": libperl.so: cannot
open shared object file: No such file or directory

plperl.so does exist in /usr/lib/postgresql
(libperl.so does not). I also compiled in plpython,
and createlang appeared to work for that. Any idea
what the problem is?

Thanks,
CSN

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Re: could not load library plperl.so

From
Alvaro Herrera
Date:
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 05:52:14PM -0700, CSN wrote:

> createlang: language installation failed: ERROR:
> could not load library
> "/usr/lib/postgresql/plperl.so": libperl.so: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory

You need your Perl installation to have libperl as a shared library.  On
some linux distros, it works to install the perl-dev or perl-devel
package.  On other systems, you may need to recompile your Perl package.

--
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
"I call it GNU/Linux. Except the GNU/ is silent." (Ben Reiter)

Re: could not load library plperl.so

From
Tom Lane
Date:
CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> writes:
> createlang: language installation failed: ERROR:
> could not load library
> "/usr/lib/postgresql/plperl.so": libperl.so: cannot
> open shared object file: No such file or directory

Notice it's complaining about libperl.so, not plperl.so.

This is probably because libperl.so isn't in your ldconfig search path.
Before PG 8.0 it's necessary to add the directory where Perl keeps that
file to your ldconfig configuration.

If you *are* using 8.0, then please explain exactly what platform
you're on and what your Perl installation is.

            regards, tom lane

Re: could not load library plperl.so

From
CSN
Date:
--- Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> CSN <cool_screen_name90001@yahoo.com> writes:
> > createlang: language installation failed: ERROR:
> > could not load library
> > "/usr/lib/postgresql/plperl.so": libperl.so:
> cannot
> > open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> Notice it's complaining about libperl.so, not
> plperl.so.
>
> This is probably because libperl.so isn't in your
> ldconfig search path.
> Before PG 8.0 it's necessary to add the directory
> where Perl keeps that
> file to your ldconfig configuration.
>
> If you *are* using 8.0, then please explain exactly
> what platform
> you're on and what your Perl installation is.
>
>             regards, tom lane

Yeah, I did 'ln
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so
/usr/lib/libperl.so' and 'createlang plperl dbname'
worked without complaining (I should probably use
ldconfig instead). I'm using 7.4.7 (will probably
upgrade to 8.x pretty soon).

CSN



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