Re: cpan module install woes - UTF-8 problem?

Sherman Pendley is quoted & my replies are inline below :

Troy Piggins <usenet-0710@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

Not being that knowledgeable with perl, I usually install modules at
the commandline by:

$ sudo cpan BerkeleyDB

...snip...

Note (probably harmless): No library found for -ldb

Grrr...

I'm hearing ya! :)

It's a pet peeve of mine that missing libraries are described as
"probably harmless." At least nine times out of ten, a missing library
will result in an XS module that either fails to build or fails its
tests.

Let's see if that's the case here...

BerkeleyDB.c BerkeleyDB.xs:68:16: error: db.h: No such file or
directory

Yep. You're missing the Berkeley DB C library, and it's not as harmless
as the warning would have you believe. The Perl module is just a wrapper
for the C library, and without the C library it can't work.

So..... how do we fix it :)

Is the missing library installed from cpan, or deb package?

--
Troy Piggins
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