perl reports "undefined symbol" when using module

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

  • /usr/bin/perl reports undefined symbol when using module, for example:
symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/Compress/Raw/Zlib/Zlib.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr
symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/List/Util/Util.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr
symbol lookup error: /usr/local/lib64/perl5/auto/Crypt/OpenSSL/AES/AES.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Gthr_key_ptr

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • perl
  • Third-party Perl modules (eg: from CPAN or other location)

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