Well I'm using linux, with perl5.80.  The so library in
question, is listed in my cache, with ldconfig -p  
If I do an ldd on gethttp_bce4.so 
it dosn't list libghttp.so.1.0.0  as being linked. 
I did manage to get it to run by wrapping it in a  shell script:
###########################################
#!/bin/sh
LD_PRELOAD=/opt/gnome/lib/libghttp.so.1.0.0
export LD_PRELOAD
gethttp.pl
#######################################

But it sure seems like a clunky way to access a so lib
from perl. Is there a way to do this all from within the
perl script?  I couldn't get the export command to work
with a system command, or it didn't affect the loading.