Let me write todays part in English. This is because this problem will be mailed or discussed in English-spoken community. This is kind of warming up or practice. As was written in the diary (in Japanese) on 2008/03/03,

Kakasi.so in p5-Text-Kakasi has a problem. The symptom is that when the Perl module Kakasi.so is invoked from another perl script, it says:

/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-netbsd-thread-multi/auto/Text/Kakasi/Kakasi.so: Undefined PLT symbol "kakasi_getopt_argv" (symnum = 14)

The module kakasi_getopt_argv is in /usr/pkg/lib/libkakasi.so, but by some reason, Kakasi.so won't reference that library.

The first glance falls to 'Text-Kakasi-1.05/Makefile.PL'. This file has the line

 'INC' => '-I/usr/local/include',
 'LIBS' => ['-L/usr/local/lib -lkakasi'],

I have asked the obache san and he has the same environment (NetBSD/i386 4.0), but he has no problem doing the same thing. So the above line should not be a problem. He suggested to look at the perl config with the line

perl -e 'use Config; print $Config{libpth}'

The result of various installation (the last line was added later) were:

package name	installed by	output of above command
perl-5.8.8nb6	binary package	/usr/lib
perl-5.8.8nb8	binary package	/usr/lib
perl-5.8.8nb8	made from pkgsrc	/usr/lib /usr/pkg/lib

Now we have to look at the origin of the binary package. It would be checked by

 pkg_info -Q BUILD_HOST perl

Now binary package version shows, for example,

NetBSD twist.lip6.fr 4.0 NetBSD 4.0 (XEN3_DOMU) #0: Sun Dec 16 01:26:00 PST 2007 builds@wb34:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-RELEASE/i386/200712160005Z-obj/ home/builds/ab/netbsd-4-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/XEN3_DOMU i386

Then we checked the difference between made from pkgsrc and binary packge, and it turned out that the file

lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-netbsd-thread-multi/Config.pm

is different.

--- bouyer/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-netbsd-thread-multi/Config.pm   2008-06-02 23:04:40.
+++ pkgsrc/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-netbsd-thread-multi/Config.pm   2008-07-08 15:15:41.
@@ -81,9 +81,9 @@
     inc_version_list => ' ',
     intsize => '4',
     ldlibpthname => 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH',
-    libpth => '/usr/lib',
+    libpth => '/usr/lib /usr/pkg/lib',
     osname => 'netbsd',
-    osvers => '4.0',
+    osvers => '4.0.0_patch',
     path_sep => ':',
     privlibexp => '/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/5.8.0',
     scriptdir => '/usr/pkg/lib/perl5/bin',

lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-netbsd-thread-multi/Config_heavy.pl
also has some differences,

-ccflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement'
+ccflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/pkg/include'

-cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement'
+cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/pkg/include'

-lddlflags='-Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib --whole-archive -shared '
-ldflags='-Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib '
+lddlflags='-Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib --whole-archive -shared  -L/usr/pkg/lib'
+ldflags='-Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib  -L/usr/pkg/lib'
... (omitted) ...

Then I have made perl-5.8.8nb8 from pkgsrc/lang/perl5. After that, p5-Text-Kakasi is packaged also. The problem, not able to find module in libkakasi.so, gone away.