Perl Problems

[Michael G Schwern]

On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:22:48AM +0000, Stephen McCullough wrote:
> Could someone please help? 
> 
> I recently installed Linux on my laptop. I am trying to get some of the 
> modules I use from the CPAN, this is what I get:    
> 
> /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/perl.h:1969: pthread.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/iperlsys.h:51,
>                  from /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/perl.h:2200,
>                  from Piece.xs:5:
> /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/perlio.h:64: stdio.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/reentr.h:67,
>                  from /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/op.h:480,
>                  from /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/perl.h:2209,
>                  from Piece.xs:5:
> /usr/include/pwd.h:26: features.h: No such file or directory
> /usr/include/pwd.h:30: bits/types.h: No such file or directory
> In file included from /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/op.h:480,
>                  from /usr/lib/perl/5.8.0/CORE/perl.h:2209,
>                  from Piece.xs:5:

You seem to be missing large numbers of the standard C header files
necessary for compiling C programs.  How you managed to have
/usr/include/pwd.h but not /usr/include/stdio.h is beyond me.
This is very odd.


> The module in question is Class::DBI, but I get the same for Time::Piece as
> well. So I take it that it will be the same for whatever modules I install :(
> 
> I never installed 'c' on my laptop on the initial install, has this anything to
> do with it?

Yes.  You really, really, really, really, really want a C compiler on a Unix
machine.  Really really really.  Really.  C makes Unix go 'round.

Install the gcc C compiler and anything that looks like it might contain
standard C header files.  On Debian its the libc6-dev package.  I don't know
what it is on other Linux distributions.  Hopefully there will be an
"install some stuff so I can compile programs" option to install all the
right packages for you.


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