coolmichael has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm trying to install 5.18 with perlbrew like so: perlbrew install perl-5.18.0 --as padre-perl But I'm getting the strangest error message I've ever seen in the error logs (below)

I've already installed a few Perls, including 5.18 on this machine with PerlBrew. It's running Mac OS X 10.8.4,

gcc -v gives "gcc version 4.2.1 (Based on Apple Inc. build 5658) (LLVM build 2336.11.00) installed by XCode 4.6.3."

cc -v gives "Apple clang version 4.1 (tags/Apple/clang-421.11.66) (based on LLVM 3.1svn)"

(I'm not sure if it's using CC or GCC). I'm stumped. Any advice appreciated.

/usr/bin/awk: syntax error at source line 1
 context is
    { print $ >>>  } <<< 
/usr/bin/awk: illegal statement at source line 1
/usr/bin/awk: illegal statement at source line 1
<stdarg.h> NOT found.
 
/usr/bin/awk: syntax error at source line 1
 context is
    { print $ >>>  } <<< 
/usr/bin/awk: illegal statement at source line 1
/usr/bin/awk: illegal statement at source line 1
<varargs.h> NOT found, but that's ok (I hope).
 
 
*** WHOA THERE!!! ***
    Your C compiler "cc" doesn't seem to support stdarg or varargs!
    I'm giving up; maybe you can try again with a different compiler?

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Re: Installing Perl 5.18.0 in Mac OS X with PerlBrew
by dave_the_m (Monsignor) on Jul 04, 2013 at 00:23 UTC
    Earlier on in the Configure output there should be a line like 
    Your cpp writes the filename in the 4th field of the line.

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    What does it say in your case? In particular, I suspect it will give '???' for the field number

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      That's exactly what is says:

      Your cpp writes the filename in the ??? field of the line.
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        In that case, Configure is failing to parse the output of the C preprocessor. Look at he following code, around line 5413: 
        echo '#include <stdio.h>' > foo.c
$cat >fieldn <<EOF
$startsh
$cppstdin $cppflags $cppminus <foo.c 2>/dev/null | \
$grep '^[     ]*#.*stdio\.h' | \
while read cline; do
    pos=1
    set \$cline
    while $test \$# -gt 0; do
        if $test $testaccess \`echo \$1 | $tr -d '"'\`; then
            echo "\$pos"
            exit 0
        fi
        shift
        pos=\`expr \$pos + 1\`
    done
done
EOF

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        You might want to edit Configure so that it shows the exact command being executed on the $cppstdin line, then run it manually and what output you get.

        Dave.

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Re: Installing Perl 5.18.0 in Mac OS X with perlall
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 04, 2013 at 01:16 UTC

    (I'm not sure if it's using CC or GCC). I'm stumped. Any advice appreciated.

    forget about perlbrew :) try perlall

    OR, try it yourself :) given the diagnostic message you got is I'm giving up; maybe you can try again with a different compiler? so run configure yourself with prefix and specify your compiler as gcc 

    sh configure -Dcc=gcc -Dprefix=~/p5180

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