1To install the Perl and C libraries, simply run: 2 3 perl Makefile.PL 4 make 5 make test 6 make install 7 8This distribution has been tested on linux version 2.4.19, 9perl 5.006 with gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (release). 10 11Linux version 2.2.16, perl 5.00503 with 12gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release) 13 14If you have older versions of gcc, don't bother, 15gcc version 2.7.2.3 does not work with this distribution. 16 17On systems with older gcc versions, you may get linker errors such as: 18 19 ld: cannot open -lresolv: No such file or directory 20 21This indicates that while the resolver library /lib/libresolv.so.2, 22was found, the linker could not use it because the file does not 23have the required file name. ld wants files of the form .../libresolv.a 24 25More recent versions of gcc / ld do not have this problem. 26There are two solutions. 27 281) install a newer version of gcc 292) provide a soft link of the correct name 30 31 i.e. cd /usr/lib 32 ln -s /lib/resolv.so.2 libresolv.a 33 34