20030409:udunits.so and perl 5.8

Barry,

> To: address@hidden
> From: Barry McInnes <address@hidden>
> Subject: udunits.so and perl 5.8
> Organization: UCAR/Unidata

The above message contained the following:

> Hi,
> with perl 5.8 I am getting
> /tmp/cal2dbl_test.pl "days since 1800-01-01 00:00:0.0" 1800 1 1
> ld.so.1: /usr/local/bin/perl: fatal: relocation error: file 
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/sun4-solaris/auto/UDUNITS/UDUNITS.so: 
> symbol perl_get_sv: referenced symbol not found
> Killed
> #
> It seems 5.005 used perl_get_sv but 5.8 uses Perl_get_sv
> 
> How do I get the UDUNITS lib to work with 5.8 ?

I rebuilt the UDUNITS package against version 5.8 of perl and it worked.

You should be able to do the same.

Contact me if you still have problems.

> Barry Mc Innes
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Regards,
Steve Emmerson