Re: [opensuse-programming] perl expert needed

Greg Freemyer wrote:

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• /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr

looking for -lpcap... You appear to lack the pcap(3) library.

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Looking at Makefile.PL, the problem seems to be in:

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sub have_library {

I'm guessing try_link() is a local subroutine that attempts to compile and link the source code generated. Normally when that is done, you should be able to find the log from the failed attempt.

With autoconf, you'd be looking at config.log, but with perl, I don't know where to look.

/Per Jessen, Zürich