Compile Error

[Daniel Atallah]

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 2:10 AM, Nima Palizban <nima.palizban at yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> I use fedora 20 , and I want to compile the source of the Pdigin, well I
have just downloaded the   source code from SourceForge "
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pidgin/"  and extract the compressed file,
then I tried "./configure" it gave me some errors, so I tried to download
and install all the dependencies by doing " yum-builddep
pidgin-2.10.9-1.fc20.src.rpm " in my pidgin directory, and after that
./configure just worked for me and made a Makfile
> but just after that when I try to compile the source code, by using make
command in terminal, after some processing it gives me the following error:
>
>
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl
> collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
> make[6]: *** [blib/arch/auto/Purple/Purple.so] Error 1
> make[6]: Leaving directory
`/home/nima/Pidgin/pidgin-2.10.10/libpurple/plugins/perl/common'
> make[5]: *** [all-local] Error 2
> make[5]: Leaving directory
`/home/nima/Pidgin/pidgin-2.10.10/libpurple/plugins/perl'
> make[4]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[4]: Leaving directory
`/home/nima/Pidgin/pidgin-2.10.10/libpurple/plugins'
> make[3]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/nima/Pidgin/pidgin-2.10.10/libpurple'
> make[2]: *** [all] Error 2
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/nima/Pidgin/pidgin-2.10.10/libpurple'
> make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/nima/Pidgin/pidgin-2.10.10'
> make: *** [all] Error 2


It looks like you don't have the perl-devel package installed.

-D
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