I'm having trouble getting the BerkeleyDB perl plug-in (0.27) to work in a specific case.
Here is my configuration: Fedora Core 4 on an HP OmniBook XE3 laptop.

The Berkeley database (v4.4.16) is sucessfully installed and accessible via C++ programs that we've tried. BerkeleyDB builds and installs without incident up to the point of doing the 'make test' operation.
Here's the first screenful of output from the process (much more than that is generated):

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[root@localhost BerkeleyDB-0.27]# make test
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/btree........Can't load '/root/berkeley/BerkeleyDB-0.27/blib/arch/auto/BerkeleyDB/BerkeleyDB.so' for module BerkeleyDB: libdb-4.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
at t/btree.t line 6
Compilation failed in require at t/btree.t line 6.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/btree.t line 6.
Undefined subroutine &BerkeleyDB::Term::close_everything called at /root/berkeley/BerkeleyDB-0.27/blib/lib/BerkeleyDB.pm line 1675.
END failed--call queue aborted at t/btree.t line 6.
t/btree........dubious
Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
t/cds..........Can't load '/root/berkeley/BerkeleyDB-0.27/blib/arch/auto/BerkeleyDB/BerkeleyDB.so' for module BerkeleyDB: libdb-4.4.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
at t/cds.t line 8
Compilation failed in require at t/cds.t line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/cds.t line 8.
Undefined subroutine &BerkeleyDB::Term::close_everything called at /root/berkeley/BerkeleyDB-0.27/blib/lib/BerkeleyDB.pm line 1675.
END failed--call queue aborted at t/cds.t line 8.
t/cds..........dubious
Test returned status 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00)
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We have two such laptops configured nearly identically and we have the same error symptoms on both. On another computer, a Dell Precision 360, I have SUSE 9.something installed and have been sucessful with building and using BerkeleyDB perl plug-in (0.27) with the Berkeley database (v4.4.16)

I don't see this problem described in the troubleshooting section of the documentation associated with the plug-in. There is a slight mention of problems with this plug-in when used with Redhat... and it points to a bugtracker report on redhat.com, but I can't tell if that applies to my situation or not. Googling "fedora perl BerkeleyDB cannot open shared object" hasn't found me the answer yet.

Help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

-bC