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I have had numerous problems with CPAN and Fedora. The trick I found was
to change the LANG environment variable to "C". Fedora sets it to
en_US.UTF-8 with causes build problems.

On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 10:02 -0500, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> I'm trying to install the perl module GD and I'm getting the following
> error:
> 
> t/Polyline....Can't load
> '/opt/SAM/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30/.cpan/build/GD-2.19/blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so' for module GD: /opt/SAM/jakarta-tomcat-4.1.30/.cpan/build/GD-2.19/blib/arch/auto/GD/GD.so: undefined symbol: gdFontGetGiant at /opt/SAM/perl5.8.6/lib/5.8.6/i686-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230
> 
> 
> I am on Fedora Core 2 and I've installed gd and gd-devel via yum.  I did
> Here are the symbols:
> 
> [tomcat at sam-dialup install]$ objdump --syms /usr/lib/libgd.a | grep Font
> 00000000 g     O .data  00008700 gdFontGiantData
> 00008700 g     O .data  00000014 gdFontGiantRep
> 00008714 g     O .data  00000004 gdFontGiant
> 00000000 g     O .data  00008000 gdFontLargeData
> 00008000 g     O .data  00000014 gdFontLargeRep
> 00008014 g     O .data  00000004 gdFontLarge
> 00000000 g     O .data  00005b00 gdFontMediumBoldData
> 00005b00 g     O .data  00000014 gdFontMediumBoldRep
> 00005b14 g     O .data  00000004 gdFontMediumBold
> 00000000 g     O .data  00004e00 gdFontSmallData
> 00004e00 g     O .data  00000014 gdFontSmallRep
> 00004e14 g     O .data  00000004 gdFontSmall
> 00000000 g     O .data  00002800 gdFontTinyData
> 00002800 g     O .data  00000014 gdFontTinyRep
> 00002814 g     O .data  00000004 gdFontTiny
> 00000b40 g     F .text  00000009 gdFreeFontCache
> 00000b50 g     F .text  00000043 gdFontCacheShutdown
> 00000018       O *COM*  00000004 gdFontCacheMutex
> 00000c00 g     F .text  00000079 gdFontCacheSetup
> 
> I do not see a gdFontGetGiant.  
> 
> Is there a way to fix this?
> 
> 
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