Bug#362974: libsdl-perl: Can't locate auto/SDL/SDL_HWSURFA.al in @INC when calling SDL::SDL_HWSURFACE()

[Brice Goglin]

Package: libsdl-perl
Version: 1.20.3-4
Severity: important

Hi,

We are facing an issue with libsdl-perl that cause our program to fail with:
Can't locate auto/SDL/SDL_HWSURFA.al in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8 
/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.8 /usr/share/perl/5.8 
/usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at ./test.pl line 3

I tried to understand what this SDL_HWSURFA.al is, but I did not find any clue in the
source of libsdl-perl and other sdl packages.

I reduced the failing code to the following 3 lines, which get the same error:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use SDL::Surface;
SDL::SDL_HWSURFACE();

Both the original program and these 3 lines work fine on Gentoo.

Thanks,
Brice Goglin

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-rc1=shepherd
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages libsdl-perl depends on:
ii  libc6              2.3.6-3               GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgcc1            1:4.1.0-1             GCC support library
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [l 6.4.1-0.4             A free implementation of the OpenG
ii  libglu1-xorg [libg 6.9.0.dfsg.1-6        Mesa OpenGL utility library [X.Org
ii  libjpeg62          6b-12                 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libpng12-0         1.2.8rel-5            PNG library - runtime
ii  libsdl-console     1.3-4                 console that can be added to any S
ii  libsdl-gfx1.2-4    2.0.13-2              drawing and graphical effects exte
ii  libsdl-image1.2    1.2.4-1               image loading library for Simple D
ii  libsdl-mixer1.2    1.2.6-1.1+b1          mixer library for Simple DirectMed
ii  libsdl-net1.2      1.2.5-7               network library for Simple DirectM
ii  libsdl-ttf2.0-0    2.0.7-1               ttf library for Simple DirectMedia
ii  libsdl1.2debian    1.2.9-5               Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii  libsmpeg0          0.4.5+cvs20030824-1.7 SDL MPEG Player Library - shared l
ii  libstdc++6         4.1.0-1               The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  perl               5.8.8-3               Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  perl-base [perlapi 5.8.8-3               The Pathologically Eclectic Rubbis

libsdl-perl recommends no packages.

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