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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