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From: snowdog@charm.net (Sean Rolinson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Perl 5.003 and BSD 2.1 (libwww-perl-5.0x)
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 20:11:47 GMT
Organization: Charm Net Inc.
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Hello,

In case anyone was wondering, I recompiled PERL and changed the module
for socket to load static and not dynamic.  It works great now!

Later...

Sean Rolinson
snowdog@charm.net

snowdog@charm.net (Sean Rolinson) once said:

> I've recently compiled perl5.003 and libwww-perl-5.06.  Both installed
> okay and testing fine, but when running GET, here is what message I
> get.
> 
> bfmail3# GET http://www.charm.net/
> Bad free() ignored at /usr/local/lib/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 140.
> Bad free() ignored at /usr/local/lib/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 140.
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <TITLE>
> An Error Occurred
> </TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
> <H1>An Error Occurred</h1>
> 501 - Can't load
> '/usr/local/lib/perl5/i386-bsdos/5.003/auto/Socket/Socket.o' for
> module Socket: can't resolve undefined symbols: Inappropriate file
> type or format.
> 
>  at /usr/local/lib/perl5/Socket.pm line 272
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/LWP/Socket.pm line 41.