-----Original Message----- From: Rudy Lippan [mailto:rlip...@remotelinux.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:05 PM To: Jochen Wiedmann Cc: Thomas Whitney; kkn...@tln.lib.mi.us; Michael Koch; pe...@lists.mysql.com Subject: RE: same problem with symbol net_buffer_length not found with 'make test' for DBD::mysql

On Wed, 6 Aug 2003, Jochen Wiedmann wrote:

Before the problem was that mysql.so was not being linked against libmysqlclient, so it had undefined symbols but did not know that it needed to load up libmysqlclient.so to resolve them. Which is why LD_PRELOAD worked.

They linker command that I somehow ended up with was missing the '-lmysqlclient' (or put it before mysql.so -- I dont' remember) I still don't know exactly what was/is going on here and what causes this...

Wait.... Here is something:

perl Makefile.PL --cflags=-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql --libs=-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lcrypt -lnsl -lm

Looses -lmysqlclient -lcrypt &al. the command should be:

perl Makefile.PL --cflags=-I/usr/local/mysql/include/mysql --libs='-L/usr/local/mysql/lib/mysql -lmysqlclient -lcrypt -lnsl -lm'

LD_LIBRARY_PATH just tells the dynamic linker where to search for its shared object. If you don't want to use LD_LIBRARY_PATH, you can modifiy /etc/ld.so.conf and add the path to where the shared object lives -- which is the standard why of doing things if you have root access to the system.