[Techtalk] Problems on FreeBSD

[Amanda Babcock]

On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 04:25:39PM -0600, Leslie wrote:

> As you can see it detects the libraries at first... but then ld reports
> that it cannot find a library. It is doing this with all of the
> libraries. If I remove -lnsl it will do the same with -ldb and so on. If
> I run the command "/usr/libexec/elf/ld -lnsl" it will report
> "/usr/libexec/elf/ld: cannot find -lnsl" . I also tried updating my
> ports collection with FreeBSD and installing Perl 5.6.1 from the ports
> collection but it reports the same error. I am pretty positive this is a
> problem with ld but I have no idea how to fix it... Does anyone have any
> ideas???

Well... have you installed other ports in the past without problems?  Have
you ever installed anything *not* from ports (that might have messed with
the libraries)?  And, what version FreeBSD is it, and have you ever used
cvsup to upgrade it?

I'm woefully ignorant of the workings of libraries etc., but it does sound
like something (besides Perl) has gotten mis-installed on your system, and
maybe we can figure out what.

Amanda