[Users] Re: [Devel] New module: perl

[Bogdan-Andrei Iancu]

Bastian,

I totally agree with you that you may add a lot of perl libs, depending 
of what exactly are you doing in the perl scripts called from the module.

I was referring to the minimal lib dependency in order to get the module 
compile from C point of view. According to my tests, libperl-dev (and 
all its dependencies) is enough. I guess it is a pretty common lib on 
most of the UNIX systems.

my suggestion is to list in docs the "libperl-dev" library as module 
external dependency, instead of the generic "Perl".

thanks and regards,
bogdan

Bastian Friedrich wrote:

>Hi Bogdan,
>
>On Tuesday 12 December 2006 16:00, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu wrote:
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>>I'm trying to compile the perl module on Debian, but from docs is not
>>very clear what libs are required (is written just Perl).
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>A "full perl installation" would include all the files from perl, libperl, and 
>libperl-dev. Right, nobody installs perl from the sources :)
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>>Is it about libperl or libperl-dev ??
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>libperl-dev includes /usr/lib/libperl.so (just as a softlink to 
>libperl5.8's /usr/lib/libperl.so.5.x). This is necessary for the module to 
>work.
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>Thus:
>On debian, you should at least install perl, perl-base, perl-modules, 
>libperl5.8 and libperl-dev.
>
>There are a lot of additional perl modules that might make sense in the 
>context of the module, so you might want to install some lib*-perl packages 
>as well, but they are not necessary for the base functionality. My primary 
>intent, accessing LDAP from within OpenSER, would depend on libnet-ldap-perl, 
>for example (in fact, the LDAPUtils modules included in my sources use that 
>debian package).
>
>Sorry for not pointing this out any better. There are big differences between 
>different distributions (I'm using SuSE here, their package naming scheme is 
>different here and there). Is there a dedicated list of supported OS and/or 
>Linux distributions of OpenSER anywhere?
>
>Please tell me if you can successfully use the module when the debian packages 
>mentioned above are installed.
>
>Thx & Regards,
>   Bastian
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