Greetings all

I think that I have to mention that this is my 42nd post. Let's all bow our heads and take a moment to remember Douglas Adams.

The problem:

I'm trying to learn how to interact with the MySQL database using perl. After following some of the tutorials in this very monastary I came up with this code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use DBI;

my $dbh = DBI->connect('DBI:mysql:DB_NAME', 'USERNAME', 'PASSWORD')
    or die "Couldn't open database: $DBI::errstr; stopped";

my $sth = $dbh->prepare("SELECT date, time, title, text FROM thoughts 
+WHERE id = 3")
    or die "Couldn't prepare statment: $DBI::errstr; stopped";

$sth->execute() or die "Couldn't execute statement: $DBI::errstr; stop
+ped";

while ( my ($date, $time, $title, $text) = $sth->fetchrow_array() ) {
    print STDOUT "date: $date time: $time\ntitle: $title\ntext:\n$text
+";
}

dbh->disconnect();
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When I try to run this script I get these errors:

dooberwah@kyle:~$ perl perl/dbi.pl
Can't load '/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/auto/DBI/D
+BI.so' for module DBI: libgcc_s.so.1: cannot open shared object file:
+ No such file or directory at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i686-linux/D
+ynaLoader.pm line 206.
 at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/i686-linux/DBI.pm line 189
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
+6.1/i686-linux/DBI.pm line 189.
Compilation failed in require at perl/dbi.pl line 6.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at perl/dbi.pl line 6.
dooberwah@kyle:~$
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As I looked at this for the first time I thought, "Hmmmm ... this DynaLoader thing is having some sort of problem. I better recompile it." After a quick search of CPAN I find that it comes bundled with Perl, and that I can't just re-download it from CPAN.

I'm not even sure about what to do in this situation. Just recompiling Perl seems like a cheap way to get around the problem, and I wouldn't ever find out what the real trouble was (if it actually did fix the problem worked). I was wondering if anybody knows how I can re-configure DynaLoader, and if that would actually help.

-Ben Jacobs (dooberwah)
http://dooberwah.perlmonk.org
"one thing i can tell you is you got to be free"