undefined symbol in perl 5.12.0

[Jeremiah Foster]

On May 1, 2010, at 8:40, Niko Tyni wrote:

> On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 12:59:42AM +0200, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> 
>> 	I'm getting this error when I run a perl script that calls libapt-pkg-perl 0.1.24:
>> 
>> 	/usr/local/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: ./auto/AptPkg/AptPkg.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr
>> 
>> 	Is this something I have misconfigured or is it a bug?
> 
> It looks like you're mixing an XS module built for 5.10.x with Perl 5.12.0.
> This doesn't work because the 5.10 and 5.12 series are binary incompatible.
> 
> The perlapi-* dependencies are designed to prevent this sort of breakage:
> all the XS module packages in sid are currently uninstallable with 5.12.0,
> and they have to be rebuilt against 5.12.0 to fix this.
> 
> If you use a non-packaged perl, you don't get this protection. I suggest not
> including /usr/lib/perl5 and /usr/share/perl5 @INC and installing any modules
> you need manually.


Thanks, I'll follow this recommendation. I am using a version of perl pulled from the git repos on alioth just to test and get the latest and greatest. 

Jeremiah