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-13.1/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile.patch3 postgresql-13.1/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile --- postgresql-13.1/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile.patch3 2020-12-09 21:29:47.269556344 +0100 +++ postgresql-13.1/src/pl/plperl/GNUmakefile 2020-12-09 21:31:06.100395606 +0100 @@ -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) REGRESS = plperl_setup plperl plperl_lc plperl_trigger plperl_shared \ plperl_elog plperl_util plperl_init plperlu plperl_array \