Re: [help-GIFT] cvs gift requires libdl

[Wolfgang Mueller]

> I tried to compile gift from latest cvs (11/01/02, 03:00) and found some
> error about dlopen, dlsym, etc. So I fixed it using the patch attached
> with this mail. I'm not sure that the problem is in my system or
> somewhere else. My system configuration is at the end of this mail.

Hi, Pruet,
Welcome in this list, and thanks a lot for your contribution. 

> LIBS= -ldl

That's a short but useful patch. As explanation: this is only needed, if you 
cannot embed perl into the GIFT (for there is either no perl, or Perl is 
broken). This is why all you other guys (myself included) don't have any 
problem, as SuSE and RedHat provide a reasonable default Perl installation. 
Apparently the Debian standard Perl installation is still broken (with 
respect to ExtUtils::Embed), or am I wrong, Pruet?

I guess I will add the corresponding line rather in configure.in to avoid 
double inclusion of the library when Perl is present.

Thanks a lot, and
Cheers,
Wolfgang

(BTW along with the new configure.in I will check in my work towards 
something that compiles with gcc-3.0.3. It does not yet compile, the current 
problem is that for the streampos type the postincrement (x++) is not 
defined, so there's the choice between doing things with x=x+1 and checking 
that things still work, or defining a postincrement)