From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 9 14:25:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 095A616A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:25:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A19A843D55 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 14:25:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i59EPFAr019531; Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:25:15 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:25:15 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Odhiambo Washington Message-ID: <20040609142514.GE46338@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20040609133050.GG5778@ns2.wananchi.com> <20040609134041.GA14174@ip73.ops.uk.psi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040609134041.GA14174@ip73.ops.uk.psi.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Subject: Re: Net::LibIDN X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:25:18 -0000 In the last episode (Jun 09), Daniel Bye said: > On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 04:30:50PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > > > > CPAN.pm: Going to build T/TH/THOR/Net-LibIDN-0.07.tar.gz > > > > /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lidn > > This kind of suggests that libidn isn't yet in your ldconfig cache. No, it doesn't; ldconfig is used by the run-time linker (ld-elf.so.1), not the compile-time linker (ld, usually via gcc). What's missing is a -L/usr/local/lib someplace, which is one reason that using ports is a good idea: ports know where their dependencies live :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com