I'm trying to carry out some remote debugging with some Perl CGI scripts. My
Mac with Leopard already had Perl installed but I needed some other Perl
modules, including DB_File, so I installed ActivePerl in a separate
directory, choosing the default one of /usr/local/ActivePerl-5.8/bin, and
used PPM to install the missing modules. I changed PATH so that this
directory came at the beginning.

I have a script that checks that the extra modules I need are loaded but
when I include the DB_File as one of the required modules I get the
following error (using Komodo to try and run this script):

dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _db_version
  Referenced from:
/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.8/site/lib/auto/DB_File/DB_File.bundle
  Expected in: dynamic lookup

dyld: Symbol not found: _db_version
  Referenced from:
/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.8/site/lib/auto/DB_File/DB_File.bundle
  Expected in: dynamic lookup

I wonder if this is a problem with BerkeleyDB. I think at some stage in my
checking I managed to avoid this error but I can't now recall what the
circumstances were. I haven't installed BerkeleyDB but assumed that it was
already available on the Mac. With a Windows installation of ActivePerl I
don't have this problem with BerkeleyDB and I seem to recall that it came
with ActivePerl but I don't know if this is the case with the Mac version.

Searching for DB_File.pm I see that it's in
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/ as well as in
/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.8/lib (and site/lib), and I wonder if the former is
part of the pre-installed version of Perl and that this is somehow causing
the problem I have.



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