After installing HDF, GD,Proj and making sure I have libplplotd.so it has worked.

Excellent - thanks for the update.
(Note that the success of building PDL::Graphics::PLplot does not rely on the availability of HDF, GD, or Proj.)

To make sure that PDL does indeed now provide HDF, GD, and Proj support, you could run the following 3 commands: 
$ perl -MPDL::IO::HDF -e 1
$ perl -MPDL::IO::GD -e 1
$ perl -MPDL::Transform::Proj4 -e 1

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If all is good, then all three of those commands will not produce any output.

When I built PDL yesterday (for the first time in quite a while) I noticed that the fortran routines (eg PDL::Slatec) were missing.
I think this happened because ExtUtils::F77 had not been installed.
You can check for the presence of the fortran stuff with: 
$ perl -MPDL::Slatec -e 1

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If it turns out that PDL::Slatec is not available, and you want that support, I would suggest installing ExtUtils::F77 and then rebuilding PDL.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^7: PDL::Graphics::PLplot fails on install by syphilis
in thread PDL::Graphics::PLplot fails on install by newperldeveloper

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