Bug#416266: freeradius: rlm_perl has symbol lookup errors when loading additional perl modules

[Stephen Gran]

This one time, at band camp, Alan DeKok said:
> Enrik Berkhan wrote:
> > Maybe it would work to link libperl.a (statically) with rlm_perl to
> > workaround the problem? I haven't tried to, yet.
> 
> $ locate libperl.a
> $
> 
>   Oops.
> 
>   It would be possible if there *was* a libperl.a.  There's no
> libperl.a, and the libperl.so dependencies aren't set up correctly.  I'm
> curious how *any* application can depend on the perl libraries, like
> FreeRADIUS does.
> 
>   My conclusion is it can't.  The Perl .so's are there for amusement,
> not for general use.

steve at gashuffer:~$ dpkg -S libperl.a
libperl-dev: /usr/lib/libperl.a
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