I don't think that the problem is with Inline::C. I ran it through automated testing and it passed all tests; however, I noticed that when you try to install Test::Harness, it will fail in the cpan shell but install with a cpan shell script. Here's the cpan shell script that I ran tests on. Give it a test drive: 
#!/usr/bin/perl

BEGIN {
    $|  = 1;
    $^W = 1;
    $ENV{'PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT'}  = 1;
    $ENV{'MB_TEST_EXPERIMENTAL'} = 1;
}

use strict;
use warnings;

use CPAN;

CPAN::Shell->install(qw(
Exporter
Carp
XSLoader
AutoLoader
constant
Data::Dumper
Scalar::Util
Test
File::Spec
Time::HiRes
Pod::Simple
Encode
Pod::Man
ExtUtils::MakeMaker
MIME::Base64
Test::Harness
Test::More
Digest::base
Digest::MD5
IO::Handle
Text::Balanced
SelfLoader
File::Temp
CPAN
CPAN::Meta::YAML
version
lib
ExtUtils::ParseXS
Pod::Usage
Getopt::Long
Text::Abbrev
JSON::PP
Parse::CPAN::Meta
Perl::OSType
Locale::Maketext::Simple
Module::Load::Conditional
Module::Load
Params::Check
IPC::Cmd
File::Path
IO::Select
Module::Metadata
ExtUtils::CBuilder
ExtUtils::Manifest
CPAN::Meta::Requirements
CPAN::Meta
ExtUtils::Install
PAR::Dist
Module::Build
Tree::DAG_Node
Sub::Uplevel
Test::Warn
Parse::RecDescent
Filter::Util::Call
YAML
YAML::Syck
Inline::Files
Inline::C));

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In reply to Re: install fails for Inline::C by Khen1950fx
in thread install fails for Inline::C by Special_K

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