Perl Problems

[Stephen McCullough]

Hi,

> > 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.

Yeah, I must have fscked up the installation some way. If there is a way
to fsck something up SWM will find it :)  

> > 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.

I bit the bullet and upgraded to unstable. And everything seems to be working
fine now :) 

Thanks to Mike and Simon :)

Cheers,

-- 
Stephen McCullough                                          www.swmcc.com