is my perl broken?

[Bill McCormick]

Forget it. I fixed it.

If anybody cares, I ran rpm -e --nodeps on gd, freetype, jpeg. Devel too.

Then recompiled all (--enable-shared where appropriate).

Bill McCormick wrote:

> I'm trying to install the GD perl lib on FC3.
>
> It fails the make test (see output below.)
>
> Some of the README's in the install dir lead me to beleive that my I 
> need to install perl from source.
>
> Can someone confirm this for me?
>
> Are there any issues with compiling perl from src on FC3?
>
> Thanks
>
> $make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" 
> "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
> t/GD..........Can't load './blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD: 
> libgd.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 
> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
> at t/GD.t line 13
> Compilation failed in require at t/GD.t line 13.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/GD.t line 13.
> t/GD..........dubious                                                        
>
>        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
> DIED. FAILED tests 1-10
>        Failed 10/10 tests, 0.00% okay
> t/Polyline....Can't load 
> '/opt/.cpan/build/GD-2.19/blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD: 
> libgd.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory 
> at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
> at /opt/.cpan/build/GD-2.19/blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm line 45
> Compilation failed in require at 
> /opt/.cpan/build/GD-2.19/blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm line 45.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
> /opt/.cpan/build/GD-2.19/blib/lib/GD/Polyline.pm line 45.
> Compilation failed in require at t/Polyline.t line 10.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/Polyline.t line 10.
> t/Polyline....dubious                                                        
>
>        Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
> DIED. FAILED test 1
>        Failed 1/1 tests, 0.00% okay
> Failed Test  Stat Wstat Total Fail  Failed  List of Failed
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 
>
> t/GD.t        255 65280    10   19 190.00%  1-10
> t/Polyline.t  255 65280     1    2 200.00%  1
> Failed 2/2 test scripts, 0.00% okay. 11/11 subtests failed, 0.00% okay.
> make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255
>