Shashankkhare has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi ALL I have downloaded the perl version nsperl5.005_03 from the perl site for HP system and trying to use the same but when i run the perl exe i get the following error msgs => /port0/perl/nsPerl5.005_03/bin> perl /usr/lib/dld.sl: Can't open shared library: ./libperl.sl /usr/lib/dld.sl: No such file or directory Abort /port0/perl/nsPerl5.005_03/bin> ls /usr/lib/dld.sl /usr/lib/dld.sl Can you please help me on this thanks in advance Shashank

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Re: perl executable
by Jouke (Curate) on May 03, 2001 at 13:33 UTC
    Didn't you get any errors when you compiled it? It seems like something went wrong there...

    Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'
      Hi thanks for reply

      i use nsperl then i get the error as following:

      /port0/perl/nsPerl5.005_03/bin/nsperl -I/port0/perl/nsPerl5.005_03/lib + /port0/shashank/unix//Temp/SubBuild.dat /port0/shashank/unix//Temp/ +hp RELEASE syntax error at /port0/perl/nsPerl5.005_03/lib/File/Find.pm line 103, +near "->(" syntax error at /port0/perl/nsPerl5.005_03/lib/File/Find.pm line 113, +near "->(" syntax error at /port0/perl/nsPerl5.005_03/lib/File/Find.pm line 127, +near "->(" syntax error at /port0/perl/nsPerl5.005_03/lib/File/Find.pm line 155, +near "->(" syntax error at /port0/perl/nsPerl5.005_03/lib/File/Find.pm line 166, +near "->(" syntax error at /port0/perl/nsPerl5.005_03/lib/File/Find.pm line 192, +near "->("
      And if i use the perl executable then i get the same error , bacically i have not compiled the sources of perl i just followed the steps to install we mentioned in the readme file. the readme file states as => nsPerl is a binary distribution of dynamic Perl. To install it:
      cd # to the directory in which you want to install it. gzip -dc nsPerl5.005_03-11-PA-RISC2.0.tar.gz | tar -xvof - cd nsPerl5.005_03 ./install
      But if the nsPerl5.005_03 directory will have a different name (not `pwd`) from the viewpoint of other nsPerl users, you must define an alias for it that all users can share (usually an automounter name), and use the fully qualified name of that alias in the install command. For example:
      /mount/share/nsPerl5.005_03/install
      bin/nsperl is your new Perl interpreter. For example:
      bin/nsperl -e 'print "Hello from $^X\n";'
      bin/perl is the standard perl program, but it won't run usefully unless certain environment variables are set correctly (as bin/nsperl does; see lib/PA-RISC2.0/nsPerl/instruct).

      lib/PA-RISC2.0/nsPerl contains software that reconfigures Perl to work on your machine. Its source code is in the subdirectory src (which you can discard, without affecting other programs' behavior).

      The rest of this package was built from standard Perl source code. You can get a copy from http://www.perl.com/CPAN/src/5.0/maint/ or http://www.perl.org

      To make Perl occupy less disk space, you can remove its documentation; that is lib/pod/html or lib/pod. There's a copy of the documentation at http://www.perl.com/CPAN/doc/ , although it's not the same version as this copy of Perl.

      If you want to automate the installation of nsPerl, the algorithm supported in all versions is to execute ./install, with the current working directory set to the only directory unpacked from the archive file. ./install creates a Perl interpreter program named nsperl, which can be moved or copied elsewhere without loss of functionality.

      - Richard Megginson <richm@netscape.com>

      also can u explain me
      1) how to compile the perl source
      2) whats the exact diff using the perl and nsperl here

      thanks again
      Shashank

      Edit by tye

        /me is honest to admit not having read your posting....please format your posting and put the output between <code> tags....After that I'll try to anwer it...

        Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'