Regardless of the warnings the compilation completes (a GD.o is created)

But it's the GD.so (not GD.o) that's being sought and not located.

t/Polyline.t .. Can't locate loadable object for module GD in @INC (@INC contains: /home/mh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.1/lib/site_perl/5.18.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/mh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.1/lib/site_perl/5.18.1 /home/mh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.1/lib/5.18.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/mh/perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.18.1/lib/5.18.1 .) at GD/Polyline.pm line 45.

At this stage the GD.so will be in a blib folder - but I don't see "blib" mentioned anywhere in the above error message. (For the running of 'make test' it *should* be there.)
After you've run 'make install', the GD.so should have been placed in a position where it *does* get found with the above @INC. This would explain that the module then works fine.

Does the same problem occur when you build other perl extensions ?
It won't be a problem with "pure perl" modules - but for extensions (ie those modules that involve C code that needs to be compiled) this ought to be working properly.
If the problem does not arise with other extensions, then the GD source distro would seem to be the culprit. Otherwise, it's something else ;-)

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re: installing GD.pm by syphilis
in thread installing GD.pm by morgon

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