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Hi all,

I just got a new notebook: Lenovo T61, dual-core 64bit. I am running Ubuntu 8.04 64bit. Part of migrating over from my old notebook to this one is installing the CPAN modules I already had previously.

I have attempted to install a few modules, and all end in failure. Running "perl Makefile.PL" works fine, but it's the make && make install that fail. Here's a snippet of the failure from trying to install List::MoreUtils:

MoreUtils.c:1797: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different s
+ize
MoreUtils.c:1798: error: invalid type argument of ‘unary *’
MoreUtils.c:1798: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different s
+ize
MoreUtils.c:1799: error: invalid type argument of ‘unary *’
MoreUtils.c:1799: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different s
+ize
MoreUtils.c:1811: error: invalid type argument of ‘unary *’
MoreUtils.c:1811: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different s
+ize
MoreUtils.c:1811: error: invalid type argument of ‘unary *’
MoreUtils.c:1811: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different s
+ize
MoreUtils.c:1811: error: invalid type argument of ‘unary *’
MoreUtils.c:1811: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different s
+ize
MoreUtils.c:1811: error: invalid type argument of ‘unary *’
MoreUtils.c:1811: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different s
+ize
make: *** [MoreUtils.o] Error 1

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I have tried using make -j3, but this hasn't worked. I also tried installing modules by using: 

perl -MCPAN -e 'install List::MoreUtils'

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But no dice. Anyone have any ideas why I can't build CPAN modules, and how should I go about resolving this?

Thanks for the help!

UPDATE:Got it! Since this was a fresh install of Ubuntu, I didn't install build-essentials, which contains some libraries that I suppose gcc needs to make stuff. Running this made everything work fine:

sudo apt-get install build-essential

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Thanks for everyone's help!

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Re: Cannot install CPAN modules
by ysth (Canon) on Aug 03, 2008 at 23:45 UTC
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      Here's the output of perl -V: 

      Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.15.7, archname=x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-mu
+lti
    uname='linux yellow 2.6.15.7 #1 smp sun sep 23 13:51:52 utc 2007 x
+86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dccc
+dlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=x86_64-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/us
+r/share/perl/5.8 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.8 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dve
+ndorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/us
+r/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/l
+ib/perl/5.8.8 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/
+man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/m
+an3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs
+ -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Duseshrplib -Dlibperl=libperl.
+so.5.8.8 -Dd_dosuid -des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemulti
+plicity=define
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS 
+-DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE
+_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DTHREADS_HAVE_PIDS -DDEBIAN 
+-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.2.3 20071123 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.2.
+2-3ubuntu4)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=1
+6
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
+ lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lgdbm -lgdbm_compat -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    perllibs=-ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.6.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.s
+o.5.8.8
    gnulibc_version='2.6.1'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'


Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT
                        PERL_MALLOC_WRAP THREADS_HAVE_PIDS USE_64_BIT_
+ALL
                        USE_64_BIT_INT USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES
                        USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Nov 27 2007 10:56:40
  @INC:
    /etc/perl
    /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8
    /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl/5.8
    /usr/share/perl/5.8
    /usr/local/lib/site_perl
    .

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      This is the Perl that came with Ubuntu64. Oddly enough, I am running a 64 bit desktop and that works fine; just the 64 bit notebook is breaking...

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        Try:

        cpan WeakRef Task::Weaken

        Update: Just a suggestion because bash will vehemently complain if you don't have the right gcc installed..

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Re: Cannot install CPAN modules
by Illuminatus (Curate) on Aug 04, 2008 at 02:12 UTC
    There a couple of possibilities. Are you using -m64 as a gcc option? What version of gcc are using. You should probably be using 4.3.
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Re: Cannot install CPAN modules
by actualize (Monk) on Aug 04, 2008 at 03:11 UTC

    Are you using sudo? If you compile without the right permissions you get a bunch of weird errors. Also, in order to make install you will be copying to directories that your account likely doesn't have permissions to. 

    sudo make
sudo make install

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    should do the trick

    -Actualize
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