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[ILUG] Problems compiling PERL

[ILUG] Problems compiling PERL

Ciaran Lynch ciaranl at esatclear.ie
Wed Sep 13 18:58:04 IST 2000


On Wed, Sep 13, 2000 at 03:11:33PM +0100, Fergal Moran wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to compile PERL 5.6 under RH6.1 I go through the configure
> script then when I try to run make I get
> 
> libperl.a(perl.o): In function `S_parse_body':
> perl.o(.text+0x180c): undefined reference to `SOCKSinit'
> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> make: *** [miniperl] Error 1
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
>
Well it's looking for socks, a library used for getting through firewalls
and proxies, so either don't use it (answer n to 'Build Perl for SOCKS') or
provide the location of the socks library (libsocks.a or something like
that) in the directories to use for library searches.

Hope this helps,
Ciaran Lynch




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