$ perl Configure.pl --verbose-step=gcc
...
cc -L/usr/local/lib test.o -o test -lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm
-lpthread -lc -lcrypt
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgdbm
Parrot::Configure::Step::cc_build() called at config/auto/gcc.pl line 31
While perl5 was configured with these libs these aren't (all) on
the box here[1]. Seems to be caused by recent changes WRT cc/gcc
detection.
leo
[1] or they are here but as e.g. libgdbm.so.3 which the linker seems to
ignore.
I ran into this yesterday when trying to configure parrot on my debian
box. The (easy) solution was to to install the libgdbm-dev package,
which includes libgdbm.a and libgdbm.so.
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matt