We configure Postgres with --disable-rpath because for the most part we want to leave it to ldconfig to determine where libraries are. However, for some reason the Perl package puts libperl.so in a nonstandard place and doesn't add that place to the ldconfig search path. I think this is a Perl packaging bug, myself, but apparently it's not going to change. So work around it by adding an rpath spec to plperl.so (only). Per bug #162198. diff -up postgresql-12beta2/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile.p3 postgresql-12beta2/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile --- postgresql-12beta2/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile.p3 2019-07-26 15:28:50.210984029 +0200 +++ postgresql-12beta2/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile 2019-07-26 15:29:38.504501120 +0200 @@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ endif # win32 SHLIB_LINK = $(perl_embed_ldflags) +# Force rpath to be used even though we disable it everywhere else +SHLIB_LINK += $(rpath) + REGRESS_OPTS = --dbname=$(PL_TESTDB) --load-extension=plperl --load-extension=plperlu REGRESS = plperl plperl_lc plperl_trigger plperl_shared plperl_elog plperl_util plperl_init plperlu plperl_array plperl_call plperl_transaction # if Perl can support two interpreters in one backend,