Sudhakar Chandrasekharan wrote: > I am trying to compile perl 5.004.04 and am having problems. My > compiler is unable to locate -lnsl (for some reason). But I'm sure that > the reqd library is in /lib
The linker is looking for /usr/lib/libnsl.so. This is a symbolic link to /usr/lib/libnsl.so.1. It's created when you install libc5-dev. Have you done so? Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .