I'm using a 64 bit CentOS 6.8 and when I first tried to run Perl v5.10.1 it would say

/usr/bin/perl: error while loading shared libraries: libperl.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I found this library in /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/libperl.so, but when I added /usr/lib64/perl5/CORE/ to LD_LIBRARY_PATH and tried running perl again I got a seg fault.

Then I tried moving the library into /lib64/ (where ldd shows it picked up all the other libraries it needs) but it still seg faults. I also checked the permissions on the library file and they are fine. This is just one host and perl runs fine on other identical hosts.

Please help, I'm out of ideas. Many thanks.

In reply to Perl segfaults and wont run. Something to do with libperl.so by holpot

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