FreeTDS Development Group

[Michael Peppler <mpeppler AT peppler.org>]

Allyn Craig writes:
 > >  > Can't load '...../Sybase.so' for module DBD::Sybase: ld.so.1: 
 > >  > /usr/local/bin/perl: fatal: relocation error: file ..../Sybase.so: 
 > > symbol
 > >  > newSVpvn: referenced symbol not found at ...../DynaLoader.pm line 166.
 > >  > 
 > >  > Any idea what newSVpvn is and where it should be loaded from?
 > > 
 > > That's part of perl itself. 
 > > 
 > > What version of perl do you have?
 > 
 > 5.004_04.
 > 
 > Looking thru the Perl documentation I could find nothing about newSVpvn.
 > However, I did find newSVpv, so I took out the n, compiled and all tests
 > passed.
 > 
 > So maybe someone should check dbdimp.c line 1325 and see if newSVpvn
 > should really be newSVpv.

That someone is me... in this case newSVpvn was introduced in 5.005,
and I used it here for some reason (I'm not really sure why)

Thanks for the bug report.

Michael
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