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Acrobat::FDF perl library on Fedora installation errors

JPP-FRWS
Registered: Oct 30 2009
Posts: 2

Well... HELP!

Have a severe problem getting the Acrobat::FDF perl module to run, and it centers around FDF.so and not being to find it, and when it can find it, it gets an error saying it cannot load it due to an undefined symbol: PL_stack_max

// should probably be written as "" at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/Acrobat/FDF.pm line 669. Can't load '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/FDF.so' for module Acrobat::FDF: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/FDF.so: undefined symbol: PL_stack_max at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 203.
at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/Acrobat/FDF.pm line 741

The .pm module is installed in /usr/lib/perl5/5.10.0/Acrobat (as are the 2 .so files) but it just will not run.

So before we get tooooo weirded out, anyone have any advice as to how to get this to work on a stock Fedora 10 installation? This is usually not that difficult.

Thanks in advance... appreciate it.

JPP

thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
This is really odd, the it should be looking for the .so files in the Acrobat Forlder. Seems like an environment variable could be unset or set wrong.

I think there is also a DLL and a Lib file that needs to be installed in the lib folder.

Are you sure that Fedora is supported?

Thom Parker
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