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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 15:42:47 +0200
From: Martin Hudec <corwin@aeternal.net>
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Hello,

Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> 
>   CPAN.pm: Going to build T/TH/THOR/Net-LibIDN-0.07.tar.gz
> 
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lidn
> This module requires GNU Libidn, which could not be found.
> 
> What am I gonna do? ;-))

	and did you try this one to install as prerequisite for Net-LibIDN?

amber# make search name="libidn"
Port:   libidn-0.4.6
Path:   /usr/ports/devel/libidn
Info:   Internationalized Domain Names command line tool
Maint:  krion@FreeBSD.org
Index:  devel
B-deps: expat-1.95.7 gengetopt-2.11 gettext-0.13.1_1 libgnugetopt-1.2 
libiconv-1.9.1_3 libtool-1.3.5_2
R-deps: expat-1.95.7 gettext-0.13.1_1 libgnugetopt-1.2 libiconv-1.9.1_3


And perhaps then try to install your wanted perl module from ports 
instead of CPAN:

Port:   p5-Net-LibIDN-0.07_1
Path:   /usr/ports/devel/p5-Net-LibIDN
Info:   This module provides access to the libidn library
Maint:  domi@saargate.de
Index:  devel perl5
B-deps: expat-1.95.7 gettext-0.13.1_1 libgnugetopt-1.2 libiconv-1.9.1_3 
libidn-0.4.6
R-deps: expat-1.95.7 gettext-0.13.1_1 libgnugetopt-1.2 libiconv-1.9.1_3 
libidn-0.4.6


	Cheers,

	Martin