Okay.  I changed the Subject so that this is easier for me to track,
and concatenated the responses to several emails below.

What do you get when you type make install-lib?

This is what I get:

cp src/libswish-e.a /usr/local/lib/libswish-e.a

No .so file.  Or is an .a file equivalent?

#ldconfig -v | less #snippet below

/usr/local/lib:
/usr/lib:
        libldap.so.1 => libldap.so.1.0.0
        liblber.so.1 => liblber.so.1.0.0
        libssl.so.0 => libssl.so.0.9.5a

Nothing being linked there either.


> Did you build with --with-zlib

Yes.

> What's the output from ldd src/swish-e?
> How about nm src/libswish-e.a  | grep compress2

# ldd src/swish-e
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4001a000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40037000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x40046000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
# nm src/libswish-e.a | grep compress2
         U uncompress2
         U uncompress2
         U uncompress2
         U compress2
00000050 T SW_compress2
00000104 T uncompress2
         U uncompress2
         U uncompress2
         U uncompress2
         U uncompress2

> Could you try two things?
>
> run ldconfig and try to build again.
>

Reran ldconfig, no change.

> I'd also like to see what ldd says, too.  I assume that libz is not
> listed.
>
>    ~/swish-e > ldd perl/blib/arch/auto/SWISHE/SWISHE.so
>           libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40095000)
>           libxml2.so.2 => /usr/local/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0x400b2000)
>           libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4014c000)
>           libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x40254000)
>           /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)

Shouldn't there be a link to libswishe in there somewhere?

# ldd blib/arch/auto/SWISHE/SWISHE.so
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40090000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x400ad000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x80000000)