[lug] Perl FDF Toolkit

[Kyle Moore]

Anyone want to earn a beer and impress me with how smart you are?

I tried yesterday to get Adobe's FDF Toolkit for Perl to run on linux.
This allows you to create pdf files that can be filled out, sent back to
the perl script and you can generate new pdf or fdf files. I was able to
get past a couple of problems but still run into problems with it and
can't get it to load the module. The toolkit comes in two files. There
is a FDF.pm and a FDF.so. I really need to get this working but think
I'm stuck.

I started to get stuck here:
************BEGIN ERROR********************
Can't load '/root/perl5/lib/i386-linux/auto/Acrobat/FDF/FDF.so' for
module Acrobat::FDF: libm.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such
file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm
line 169.

 at /root/perl5/lib/Acrobat/FDF.pm line 579
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./kjm.pl line 3.
************END ERROR***********************

After making a link "ln -s /usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5
/lib/libm.so.5" I was able to at least get a new message:
************BEGIN ERROR********************* 
Can't load '/root/perl5/lib/i386-linux/auto/Acrobat/FDF/FDF.so' for
module Acrobat::FDF: /root/perl5/lib/i386-linux/auto/Acrobat/FDF/FDF.so:
undefined symbol: Perl_markstack_ptr at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 169.

 at /root/perl5/lib/Acrobat/FDF.pm line 579
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./kjm.pl line 3.
************END ERORR***********************

I think the problem is libraries aren't where the FDF.so expects them to
be. The problem is that this toolkit for Perl is supplied "as
is"...there is no support for it right now. 

Anyone???
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Kyle Moore
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