Well I ended up not finding my solution via google. I ended up figuring it out though. It seems that --libs doesn't actually pass the arguments to the Makefile.

LDDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib was all that was set in the Makefile. I modified that to contain all of the options that were passed on the command line, and I built perfectly.

However I still have this problem:

Can't call method "rows" without a package or object reference at....

where at is

$dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=$db;host=$host","$user", "$pw", {'RaiseError' => 1}) or die "Unable to connect:$DBI::errstr\n";

$query = "SELECT longdescs.bug_id bug_id,longdescs.thetext thetext, bugs.short_desc short_desc FROM bugs, longdescs where bugs.bug_id = longdescs.bug_id and bugs.target_milestone = '$target' order by longdescs.bug_id;";

$sth = $dbh->prepare( $query ) or die "SQL Failure: On prepare of\n\t$DBI::errstr\n"; $sth = $sth->execute() or die "SQL Failure: On execute of\n\t$DBI::errstr\n"; $return = $sth->rows;