R help - Jun 2004 - Problems running RSPerl w. SuSe 9.0 / Perl 5.8.1

Exactly the same question was asked here by

From: Emmanuel Engelhart <Emmanuel.Engelhart at hte-company.de>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 13:31:17 +0100

so please talk to your colleagues (and note what
> PLEASE do read the posting guide!
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says about doing your homework).

Note also that RSPerl is part of the Omegahat project which has its own
mailing lists (which may currently be down) and R-help is not the
appropriate place for question about third-party addons to R.

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Hi,

installation of RSPerl works fine without errors.

Running RSPerl does not work at all.

If I start R, and then enter this command:

	library(RSPerl)

this error appears:

-----------------
> library(RSPerl) 
Error in dyn.load(x, as.logical(local), as.logical(now)) : 
        unable to load shared library 
"/usr/local/lib/R/library/RSPerl/libs/RSPerl.so": 
  
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/i586-linux-thread-multi/auto/Apache/Languag
e/Language.so: undefined symbol: perl_cmd_perl_TAKE1 
Error in library(RSPerl) : .First.lib failed 
------------------


Does anyone know why this happens?


I have perl 5.8.1 from the SuSe 9.0 distribution.

I used the R pecompiled rpm package R-base-1.9.0-1.i586.rpm for Suse.

First I thought it is a problem of the perl module mentioned above, but
after removing Language.so from my perl installation, the problem
re-appeared with a different perl module.

I also tried to compile R from scratch ( gcc 3.3.1), reinstalled RSPerl, but
the problem remains.

We have no Idea how to get RSPerl to work but we need it very urgently.
Do you have any Ideas how to resolve this?

Thank you very much in advance.

Kind Regards
Michael


================More detailed information:

I searched through all of my shared librarys and found the missing Symbol
'perl_cmd_perl_TAKE1' in the library /usr/lib/apache/libproxy.so. But
somehow Language.so does not find this symbol. Is there something wrong with
the library search path? ( LD_LIBRARY_PATH is not defined on my system )




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