How to debug ld.so.1: fatal: relocation error:?

Question

I've been messing around on a Solaris box, installing precompiled lib/programs from the repos by extracting them and placing them in my home dir.
It seems everything I've tried so far works, except for irssi.
I get the following error:

 $ ~/bin/irssi                                                                                                                                                                    
 ld.so.1: irssi: fatal: relocation error: file /export/home0/leem2/bin/irssi: symbol boot_DynaLoader: referenced symbol not found
 Killed

Any ideas on how to debug this?

EDIT: I have run:

 $ ldd /export/home0/leem2/bin/irssi

and it has no missing libs.

Answer 1

In general, if you're missing a symbol yet have all your libs, you probably have a version issue - the app depends on a newer version of the library (with the symbol) than what you have.

However, this seems to be strictly a perl-embed issue.