Re: DBD::Pg compilation errors

Kyle Herrmann wrote:

>I am posting this question to the DBDpg general discussion list, but please
>point me towards a more appropriate group if there is one.
>
>I am using CPAN to install DBI 1.51 and DBD::Pg 1.49 modules.  We are
>currently running the latest version of bizgres, which translates into
>postgres 8.1.3.
>
>On other machines I have been able to install DBD::Pg fairly easily, but
>I'm
>having trouble on a few that I am trying to setup for development.  The
>only
>thing I can see being different between these new systems and the currently
>working environments is that on the working systems they have
>DBI 1.50 installed.
>
>Here is the error I am seeing, and I would be curious if anyone has any
>pointers as to what it means:
>
>#     Error:  Can't load
>'~/.cpan/build/DBD-Pg-1.49/blib/arch/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module DBD::Pg:
>libpq.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at
>/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
>#  at (eval 4) line 2
># Compilation failed in require at (eval 4) line 2.
>
>The README seems to have reference to shared library issues, but this error
>looks different than their examples and I'm not sure what to look for.  I
>did ldconfig -v and couldn't find any reference to libpq.so at all,
>although
>I ran the same command on our working environments and didn't see any
>references there either.
>
>Thanks for any thoughts on this issue.
>
>  
>


Well, you haven't told us what OS this is on, except indirectly :-) What 
distro is it? Some have binaries already built for you. FC5 for example 
has DBD::Pg 1.49 in updates, for example.

You must surely have libpq.so somewhere on your system - psql won't run 
without it. Maybe a find or locate command will show you where.

cheers

andrew