[collectd] cannot load Perl plug-in: plugin_load: Could not find plugin "perl" in /usr/lib64/collectd

[Dan NH]

Good evening!

*Issue*: cannot load Perl plug-in
*Error message from*: /var/log/collectd.log
*error message text*:
[2015-05-22 13:07:02] plugin_load: Could not find plugin "perl" in
/usr/lib64/collectd
[2015-05-22 13:07:02] Found a configuration for the `perl' plugin, but the
plugin isn't loaded or didn't register a configuration callback.

*System information:*
centOS 6
2.6.32-504.8.1.el6.x86_64

*collectd version:*
collectd              x86_64 5.4.1-1.el6

I am installing this from a repository.

*The plug-in is the example from the source repository*:
http://git.verplant.org/?p=collectd.git;a=blob;f=contrib/examples/MyPlugin.pm;h=b1a8a6d8ff3cb2487a1bd5c29de6f0c29336a6ee;hb=HEAD

*Maybe this installation could not find libperl.so…*
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so

*I tried putting a symbolic link, but I got the same error:*
bash-4.1# pwd
/usr/lib64/collectd
bash-4.1# ls -l *perl.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 65 May 22 16:04 libperl.so ->
/usr/lib64/perl5/5.10.0/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so

*This is from my collectd configuration file:*
<Plugin perl>
       IncludeDir "/usr/local/lib64/perl5"
       BaseName "Collectd::Plugins"
       EnableDebugger ""
       LoadPlugin MyPlugin

       <Plugin MyPlugin>
       </Plugin>
</Plugin>

*Plug-in location:*
# ls /usr/local/lib64/perl5
MyPlugin.pm  TestPlugin.pm


I tried to enable the debugger but control never passes to the Perl
debugger. Maybe not surprising if it cannot find this necessary Perl
library.

Please offer any advice. A possible solution someone may know about is a
special environment variable that can point to different libraries for
collectd after configuration.
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