I am trying to use Devel::NYTProf and have the following shell script: 

#!/bin/tcsh -f

setenv PERL5LIB "/home/user/perl_modules/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux"

/usr/bin/perl -d:NYTProf factorial_recurse.pl 12

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factorial_recurse.pl contains the following: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;

sub factorial
{
    return unless int($_[0]) == $_[0];
    return 1 if $_[0] == 1;
    return $_[0] * factorial($_[0] - 1);
}

print factorial($ARGV[0]), "\n";

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If I run the above, I receive the following error message: 

Can't load '/home/user/perl_modules/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux/Devel/auto/
+Devel/NYTProf/NYTProf.so' for module Devel::NYTProf: /home/user/perl_
+modules/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux/Devel/auto/Devel/NYTProf/NYTProf.so: u
+ndefined symbol: PL_stack_sp at /usr/share/perl5/XSLoader.pm line 68.
 at /home/user/perl_modules/lib/perl5/x86_64-linux/Devel/NYTProf/Core.
+pm line 17.
Compilation failed in require at /home/user/perl_modules/lib/perl5/x86
+_64-linux/Devel/NYTProf.pm line 26.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

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If I instead change /usr/bin/perl in the shell script to /tool/bin/perl, the script runs without errors. I found this fix when I searched for "undefined symbol: PL_stack_sp", but what exactly is going wrong here and why does using a different perl installation fix it? If anything I would expect the error case to be when the version of perl called in the shell script doesn't match the version specified in factorial_recurse.pl.
For reference, "/usr/bin/perl -v" is v5.16.3 and "/tool/bin/perl -v" is v5.12.2.

In reply to Devel::NYTProf: "undefined symbol: PL_stack_sp" error by Special_K

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