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gman has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello, I'm attempting to use perlcc and having problems. So I stepped back and created a simple hi.pl. Looking for a direction. Here is the result of
perlcc hi.pl Thanks in advance gman

perlcc hi.pl ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +---------- Compiling hi.pl: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- +---------- Making C(hi.pl.c) for hi.pl! /usr/local/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris -I/usr +/local/lib/perl5/5.00503 -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4- +solaris -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 -I. -MO=CC,-ohi.pl.c h +i.pl hi.pl syntax OK Compiling C(hi) for hi.pl! /usr/local/bin/perl -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris -I/usr +/local/lib/perl5/5.00503 -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4- +solaris -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 -I. /tmp/hi.pl.tst gcc -I/usr/local/include -O -I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solari +s/CORE /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so +-o hi hi.pl.c -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-s +olaris/CORE -lperl -lsocket -lnsl -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt ld: fatal: library -ldb: not found ld: fatal: File processing errors. No output written to hi collect2: ld returned 1 exit status ERROR: In compiling code for hi.pl.c !

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