Both the stable (1.22) and testing versions of DBD-Pg looks for libpq.so.3, but that is not installed by the libpq ebuild (8.0.3). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge libpq and DBD-Pg 2. Run a perl script that tries to connect to a Postgresql database. 3. Actual Results: The Perl script fails with: install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux/auto/DBD/Pg/Pg.so' for module DBD::Pg: libpq.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/x86_64-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 230. at (eval 2) line 3 Compilation failed in require at (eval 2) line 3. Perhaps a required shared library or dll isn't installed where expected at /tmp/dbi_test line 8 Expected Results: Perl should have connected to the database. Creating a symlink from libpq.so.4.0 pointing to libpq.so.3 seems to work. (I've only done a really simple select so far.) dl@tilia:/usr/lib$ emerge info Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r6 x86_64 AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 246 Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.11 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=opteron -mtune=opteron -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=opteron -mtune=opteron -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg distlocks fixpackages sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LC_ALL="en_US" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="amd64 X a52 alsa apache2 arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo browserplugin cdr crypt cups curl doc dv dvdread eds encode esd fam fame foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 java jpeg kde libwww livecd lzw lzw-tiff mad mikmod modperl motif mozdevelop mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mpi mpm-prefork mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg opengl pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell ssl tcltk tcpd tetex threads tiff tlctk truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb userlocales vorbis wxgtk1 xml xml2 xmmsxpm xprint xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
You seem to have stale files from old perl version. Did you run perl-cleaner after upgrading perl?
(In reply to comment #1) > You seem to have stale files from old perl version. Did you run perl-cleaner > after upgrading perl? I've never heard of perl-cleaner before (I suppose a message scrolled by when upgrading perl, but I'm afraid I didn't notice). After running it (perl-cleaner all) and unmerging/emerging libpq and DBD-Pg the problem persists, however. (Sorry for the delay; I replied to the email.)
Mass re-assign.
is dev-perl/DBD-Pg-1.43 still applicable to this?
(In reply to comment #4) > is dev-perl/DBD-Pg-1.43 still applicable to this? > I'm afraid I don't know, as I'm not running DBD-Pg on any Gentoo system for the moment.
Closing with a test case request.
