Re: Problems compiling perl 5.004.04 - ld: cannot open -lnsl

Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I am trying to compile perl 5.004.04 and am having problems. My > compiler is unable to locate -lnsl (for some reason). But I'm sure that > the reqd library is in /lib The linker is looking for /usr/lib/libnsl.so. This is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1

Problems compiling perl 5.004.04 - ld: cannot open -lnsl

I am trying to compile perl 5.004.04 and am having problems. My compiler is unable to locate -lnsl (for some reason). But I'm sure that the reqd library is in /lib - $ cd /lib $ ls -l *nsl* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root17448 Jun 5 1997 libnsl-2.0.4.so* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root