Hello, I have created my XS, and it works as expected when I link everything statically.
Then I linked dynamically and installed it by "make install". This installs following files: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Kdb /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Kdb/Kdb.so /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Kdb/Kdb.bs /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Kdb/autosplit.ix /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Kdb/.packlist /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Kdb/Kdb.a /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Kdb/extralibs.ld /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Kdb/extralibs.all /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi/Kdb.pm When I run the program from the directory where I compiled it, it runs fine. But when I try to run it from a different directory, I get this error message: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/kdb> (cd /; ~/kdb/test) ~/kdb/test: error while loading shared libraries: Kdb/blib/arch/auto/Kdb/Kdb.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Please note the "Kdb/blib/arch" prefix. This prefix is correct when the program is run from the compilation directory. But when the compilation directory is not available, the library should be searched in auto/Kdb/Kdb.so since that's where "make install" installed it (relative to /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i586-linux-thread-multi, which is in perl's @INC array). Any ideas what's going on here?