Re: RH9 multi-thread perl unresolved symbol problem?

[Jochen Wiedmann]

Matthew A. R. Sherian wrote:

> I have upgraded to DBI-1.40 and DBD-MySQL-2.9 and am now receiving the
> following error after compiling with the below compile options.
> 
> 
> Can't load
> '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so' for
> module DBD::mysql:
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.so: undefined
> symbol: net_buffer_length at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm
> line 229.

Most probably the linker is unable to locate the dynamic libraries. Try a 
google search for "net_buffer_length DBD mysql", it will emit a lot of 
results and associated hints.


Jochen