I believe it is related to the c compiler differences however even after reinstalling Perl with C/C++ V7.0 compiler and then trying to add the XML parser module with same compiler we are getting this:

aix52:/usr/opt/perl5/bin/XML-Parser-2.34> sudo make
cp Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-cp932.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-cp932.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-7.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-7.enc
cp Parser/Style/Tree.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser/Style/Tree.pm
cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-9.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-9.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-unicode.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-unicode.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/README blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/README
cp Parser/Encodings/euc-kr.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/euc-kr.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/windows-1250.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/windows-1250.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/windows-1252.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/windows-1252.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/big5.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/big5.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-3.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-3.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/Japanese_Encodings.msg blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/Japanese_Encodings.msg
cp Parser/Style/Subs.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser/Style/Subs.pm
cp Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-jisx0221.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-jisx0221.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-8.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-8.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-4.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-4.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-2.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-2.enc
cp Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jdk117.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jdk117.enc
cp Parser/LWPExternEnt.pl blib/lib/XML/Parser/LWPExternEnt.pl
cp Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-unicode.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-unicode.enc
cp Parser/Style/Objects.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser/Style/Objects.pm
cp Parser/Style/Debug.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser/Style/Debug.pm
cp Parser.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm
cp Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jisx0221.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jisx0221.enc
cp Parser/Style/Stream.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser/Style/Stream.pm
cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-5.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-5.enc
/usr/bin/perl -e 'use ExtUtils::Mksymlists; Mksymlists("NAME" => "XML::Parser", "DL_FUNCS" => { }, "FUNCLIST"
=> [], "DL_VARS" => []);'
cp Expat.pm ../blib/lib/XML/Parser/Expat.pm
/usr/bin/perl -e 'use ExtUtils::Mksymlists; Mksymlists("NAME" => "XML::Parser::Expat", "DL_FUNCS" => { }, "FUN
CLIST" => [], "DL_VARS" => []);'
/usr/bin/perl /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.0/ExtUtils/xsubpp -noprototypes -typemap /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.0/ExtUtils/
typemap -typemap typemap Expat.xs > Expat.xsc && mv Expat.xsc Expat.c
cc_r -c -D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=16384 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEE
D_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong -O -DVERSION=\"2.34\" -DXS_VERSION=\"2.34\" "-I/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8
.0/aix-thread-multi/CORE" Expat.c
Running Mkbootstrap for XML::Parser::Expat ()
chmod 644 Expat.bs
rm -f ../blib/arch/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so
LD_RUN_PATH="" ld -bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.0/aix-thread-multi/CORE/perl.exp -bE:Expat.exp -b
noentry -lpthreads -lc_r Expat.o -o ../blib/arch/auto/XML/Parser/Expat/Expat.so
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_Parse
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetNamespaceDeclHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetElementHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetUnknownEncodingHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetEndCdataSectionHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetStartCdataSectionHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_GetInputContext
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_GetCurrentByteCount
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_ErrorString
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_GetSpecifiedAttributeCount
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_GetCurrentByteIndex
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_GetCurrentColumnNumber
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_GetCurrentLineNumber
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_GetErrorCode
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetDefaultHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_DefaultCurrent
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetDefaultHandlerExpand
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_GetBase
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetBase
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetXmlDeclHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetEndDoctypeDeclHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetStartDoctypeDeclHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetAttlistDeclHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetElementDeclHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetEntityDeclHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetExternalEntityRefHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetNotationDeclHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetUnparsedEntityDeclHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetCommentHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetProcessingInstructionHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetCharacterDataHandler
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_ParserFree
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_ParserCreate_MM
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetUserData
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetParamEntityParsing
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_ExternalEntityParserCreate
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_GetBuffer
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_ParseBuffer
ld: 0711-317 ERROR: Undefined symbol: .XML_SetCdataSectionHandler
ld: 0711-345 Use the -bloadmap or -bnoquiet option to obtain more information.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 8.

Stop.
make: 1254-004 The error code from the last command is 2.

Stop.
Here is some env info: ##########################

aix52:/usr/opt/perl5/bin> sudo perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration:
Platform:
osname=aix, osvers=5.2.0.0, archname=aix-thread-multi
uname='aix rocky 2 5 000ad7df4c00 '
config_args=''
hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define
useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
Compiler:
cc='cc_r', ccflags ='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=16384 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN

-DNEED_PTHREAD_INIT -q32 -D_LARGE_FILES -qlonglong',
optimize='-O',
cppflags='-D_ALL_SOURCE -D_ANSI_C_SOURCE -D_POSIX_SOURCE -qmaxmem=16384 -qnoansialias -DUSE_NATIVE_DLOPEN -DNEED_PTH

READ_INIT'
ccversion='', gccversion='', gccosandvers=''
intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=4321
d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=8
ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
alignbytes=8, prototype=define
Linker and Libraries:
ld='ld', ldflags =' -brtl -b32'
libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
libs=-lbind -lnsl -ldbm -ldl -lld -lm -lpthreads -lc_r -lcrypt -lbsd -lPW
perllibs=-lbind -lnsl -ldl -lld -lm -lpthreads -lc_r -lcrypt -lbsd -lPW
libc=/lib/libc.a, so=a, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.a
gnulibc_version=''
Dynamic Linking:
dlsrc=dl_aix.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' -bE:/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.0/aix-thread-multi/CORE/perl.exp

'
cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-bhalt:4 -bM:SRE -bI:$(PERL_INC)/perl.exp -bE:$(BASEEXT).exp -bnoentry -lpthreads -lc_r'



Characteristics of this binary (from libperl):
Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
Built under aix
Compiled at Jul 26 2002 13:48:15
@INC:
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.0/aix-thread-multi
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.0
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/aix-thread-multi
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.0
/usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl




Listing of perl modules:

aix52:/usr/opt/perl5/bin> perldoc perllocal




PERLLOCAL(1) perl v5.8.0 (2005-05-02) PERLLOCAL(1)




Mon May 2 14:47:55 2005: "Module" XML-DOM

o "installed into: /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.0"

o "LINKTYPE: dynamic"

o "VERSION: 1.43"

o "EXE_FILES: "

+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_+_
Thanks in advance

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