Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 09:25:15 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Odhiambo Washington <wash@wananchi.com> Subject: Re: Net::LibIDN Message-ID: <20040609142514.GE46338@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20040609134041.GA14174@ip73.ops.uk.psi.com> References: <20040609133050.GG5778@ns2.wananchi.com> <20040609134041.GA14174@ip73.ops.uk.psi.com>
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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
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