I am having the same problem as tux300181 (it seems to be reported a bit recently) However none of the published fixes appear to be working.

The symptom is:

[vlad@bd01 Parallel-MPI-Simple-0.03]$ make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-Iblib/lib" "-Iblib/arch" test.pl
Can't load 'blib/arch/auto/Parallel/MPI/Simple/Simple.so' for module P
+arallel::MPI::Simple: blib/arch/auto/Parallel/MPI/Simple/Simple.so: u
+ndefined symbol: ompi_mpi_char at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linu
+x-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 203. at ic.pl line 3
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This appears to be a loader problem, although I am not sure, any assistance is greatly appreciated.
What I did:

perl Makefile.PL CC=mpicc CCFLAGS="-lopenmpi -m64 -L/usr/local/lib/ope
+nmpi -L/usr/local/lib/" LIB=/usr/local/lib

[vlad@bd01 Parallel-MPI-Simple-0.03]$ make
mpicc -c   -lopenmpi -m64 -L/usr/local/lib/openmpi -L/usr/local/lib/ -
+O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protec
+tor --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic   -DVERSION=\"0.03\
+" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.03\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux
+-thread-multi/CORE"   Simple.c
Simple.xs: In function ‘_Gather’:
Simple.xs:131: warning: null argument where non-null required (argumen
+t 3)
Simple.xs:124: warning: unused variable ‘rank’
Simple.xs: In function ‘_Comm_split’:
Simple.xs:204: warning: unused variable ‘realcolour’
Simple.c: In function ‘Finalize’:
Simple.xs:111: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
Simple.c: In function ‘Barrier’:
Simple.xs:106: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
Simple.c: In function ‘Init’:
Simple.xs:82: warning: control reaches end of non-void function
Simple.c: In function ‘_Gather’:
Simple.xs:160: warning: ‘buf_lens’ may be used uninitialized in this f
+unction
Running Mkbootstrap for Parallel::MPI::Simple ()
chmod 644 Simple.bs
rm -f blib/arch/auto/Parallel/MPI/Simple/Simple.so
gcc  -shared -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -
+fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic Simple
+.o  -o blib/arch/auto/Parallel/MPI/Simple/Simple.so     \
             \
      
chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/Parallel/MPI/Simple/Simple.so
cp Simple.bs blib/arch/auto/Parallel/MPI/Simple/Simple.bs
chmod 644 blib/arch/auto/Parallel/MPI/Simple/Simple.bs
Manifying blib/man3/Parallel::MPI::Simple.3pm
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These warnings appear harmless enough... However make test fails as described above.
Background:

- using openmpi 1.4.1 which seems to run the examples ok.
- ldconfig output is:
    vlad@bd01 Parallel-MPI-Simple-0.03]$ ldconfig -p | grep mpi
    libopenmpi_malloc.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libopenmpi
+_malloc.so.0
    libopenmpi_malloc.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libopenmpi_m
+alloc.so
    libmpi_f90.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmpi_f90.so.0
    libmpi_f90.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmpi_f90.so
    libmpi_f77.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmpi_f77.so.0
    libmpi_f77.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmpi_f77.so
    libmpi_cxx.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmpi_cxx.so.0
    libmpi_cxx.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmpi_cxx.so
    libmpi.so.0 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmpi.so.0
    libmpi.so (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/local/lib/libmpi.so
    libexempi.so.3 (libc6,x86-64) => /usr/lib64/libexempi.so.3


- libmpi.so defines the symbol openmpi_mpi_char:
[[vlad@bd01 Parallel-MPI-Simple-0.03]$ objdump -tT /usr/local/lib/libm
+pi.so.0 | grep mpi_char
0000000000296920 g     O .data    0000000000000200              ompi_m
+pi_char
0000000000296b20 g     O .data    0000000000000200              ompi_m
+pi_character
0000000000296b20 g    DO .data    0000000000000200  Base        ompi_m
+pi_character
0000000000296920 g    DO .data    0000000000000200  Base        ompi_m
+pi_char

- However the file Simple.so does not appear to look for this lib:
    [vlad@bd01 Parallel-MPI-Simple-0.03]$ ldd  blib/arch/auto/Parallel
+/MPI/Simple/Simple.so
    linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffaa1fe000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007fcaa1ae4000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x0000003da7a00000)

System is FC10 x86_64
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What am I missing?

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