perl mapscript error

[Sean Gillies]

Tom,

We're using swig 1.3.21 to generate wrappers for the releases, you 
might want to consider an upgrade.

Sean

On Jul 12, 2005, at 7:46 PM, Kralidis,Tom [Burlington] wrote:

> Duh!  I forgot to run make install after perl Makefile.PL && make.  The
> old mapscript was built off an older (since removed) libpq.
>
> Sorry for the fuss.  Must go for drink now.
>
> ..Tom
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: UMN MapServer Users List
>> [mailto:MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU] On Behalf Of=20
>> Kralidis,Tom [Burlington]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 12 July, 2005 21:32
>> To: MAPSERVER-USERS at LISTS.UMN.EDU
>> Subject: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] perl mapscript error
>> =20
>> =20
>> Hi,
>> =20
>> I've been trying to install mapscript for Perl from latest
>> CVS on a Fedora box.
>> =20
>> Note that mapscript/perl/README provides swig command:
>> =20
>> $ swig -perl5 -shadow -outdir . -o mapscript_wrap.c ../mapscript.i
>> =20
>> -outdir is not a valid flag (swig 1.3.19)
>> =20
>> ...so I removed it and ran:
>> =20
>> $ swig -perl5 -shadow -o mapscript_wrap.c ../mapscript.i
>> =20
>> ..and things worked.  Now, when I try to run a Perl script, I get
>> errors:
>> =20
>> $ perl -Mmapscript -e 'print "hi"\n'
>> Can't load
>> '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/auto/m
>> apscript/m
>> apscript.so' for module mapscript: libpq.so.3: cannot open=20
>> shared object
>> file: No such file or directory at=20
>> /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm=20
>> line 229.  at=20
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/i386-linux-thread-multi/mapscript.pm
>> line 7
>> Compilation failed in require.
>> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
>> =20
>> My system does not have a libpq.so.3, but I have libpq* in:
>> =20
>> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.4
>> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.a /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so.4.0
>> /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.so
>> /usr/local/lib/libpq.a
>> /usr/local/lib/libpq.so.4.0
>> /usr/local/lib/libpq.so
>> /usr/local/lib/libpq.so.4
>> =20
>> Any suggestions?
>> =20
>> Thanks
>> =20
>> ..Tom
>> =20
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