ld returning an error when compiling .o's for Perl Module

[crankin]

I'm trying to install a Perl Module Apache2::Request on Suse 10.1. I've successfully installed it on other Versions 9.x etc. But when trying to install it I get the following errors in bold. what is -lldap and how can I go about installing it?

Thanks

gcc -shared .libs/util.o .libs/version.o .libs/cookie.o .libs/param.o .libs/parser.o .libs/parser_urlencoded.o .libs/parser_header.o .libs/parser_multipart.o .libs/module.o .libs/module_custom.o .libs/module_cgi.o .libs/error.o /usr/lib/libapr-1.so /usr/lib/libaprutil-1.so -L/usr/lib -lldap -llber -ldb-4.3 /usr/lib/libexpat.so -lrt -lcrypt -lpthread -ldl -Wl,-soname -Wl,libapreq2.so.3 -o .libs/libapreq2.so.3.6.0
/usr/lib/gcc/i586-suse-linux/4.1.0/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: cannot find -lldap
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

[theNbomr]

The error message is telling you that it wants to link to a file 'libldap', which I presume contains some code related to LDAP access. It cannot find said file, either because it doesn't exist on your system, or because it is stored in a place not identified with a '-L' linker flag. Try finding libldap, and if found, either add the location to /etc/ld.so.conf & running ldconfig. If it isn't found, try installing libldap, using whatever package management system your Suse installation provides.
--- rod.

[crankin]

thanks, that makes sense. however it still doesn't seem to be working. My
/etc/ld.so.conf files contained the following

/usr/X11R6/lib/Xaw3d
/usr/X11R6/lib
/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib=libc5
/usr/i386-suse-linux/lib
/usr/local/lib
/opt/kde3/lib
/opt/gnome/lib
include /etc/ld.so.conf.d/*.conf

so I updated it to include /usr/lib

because my libldap files where located in /usr/lib as the following shows

/usr/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7
/usr/lib/libldap-2.2.so.7.0.20
/usr/lib/libldap-2.3.so.0
/usr/lib/libldap-2.3.so.0.2.7
/usr/lib/libldap_r-2.2.so.7
/usr/lib/libldap_r-2.2.so.7.0.20
/usr/lib/libldap_r-2.3.so.0
/usr/lib/libldap_r-2.3.so.0.2.7
/usr/lib/libldapcpp.so.0
/usr/lib/libldapcpp.so.0.0.4

so after I edited the /etc/ld.so.conf file I ran ldconfig, the tried to re-install the module, still getting the same error. I ran make distclean and tried to compile it by hand. still same thing. Is there anything I could be missing? Thanks.

also when i run make i notice the following lines in the output near the begging of the output long before it dies from the error

checking for /usr/bin/apu-1-config... yes
setting APR_INCLUDES to " -I/usr/include "
adding "-I/usr/include/apr-1" to APR_INCLUDES
setting APR_LTFLAGS to " /usr/lib/libapr-1.la"
adding "/usr/lib/libaprutil-1.la" to APR_LTFLAGS
setting APR_LIBS to " -lldap -llber -ldb-4.3 -lexpat"
adding "-lrt" to APR_LIBS
adding "-lcrypt" to APR_LIBS
adding "-lpthread" to APR_LIBS
adding "-ldl" to APR_LIBS
setting APR_LDFLAGS to " -L/usr/lib -laprutil-1 "
adding "-lapr-1" to APR_LDFLAGS
adding "-fno-strict-aliasing" to CFLAGS
setting CPPFLAGS to " -DLINUX=2 -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE"
libapreq2 Version: 2.6.0

[theNbomr]

See if you can find a way to add '-L /usr/lib' to the linker flags. In Makefiles, this is quite often done with a LDFLAGS macro. Perhaps the configure script can be given an argument to set this.
--- rod.