[Slackbuilds-users] mbootpack build fail from Perl5

[Matteo Bernardini]

2018-01-19 13:58 GMT+01:00 David Melik <dchmelik at gmail.com>:
> help2man -n "packages a multiboot kernel and modules as a single file" -s 1
> -N ./mbootpack > mbootpack.man
> /usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error:
> /usr/lib64/perl5/vendor_perl/auto/Locale/gettext/gettext.so: undefined
> symbol: Perl_xs_apiversion_bootcheck
> Makefile:54: recipe for target 'mbootpack.man' failed
> make: *** [mbootpack.man] Error 127

Hi David,

this builds fine here, on stable and current.

the error you got seem related to a non-standard installation of the
gettext.so perl library, included in the Slackware perl package: maybe
reinstalling the perl package that comes with Slackware should fix it
(it should overwrite it).

Matteo