-ubuntu:~/.cpan/build/Lingua-LinkParser-1.14-cLQyC8# make
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cc -c  -I/home/aktest/link-4.1b/include/ -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -D
+DEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_S
+OURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g   -DVERSION=\"1.14\" -DXS_VERSION
+=\"1.14\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE"  -DDICTIONARY_DIR=\".\" L
+inkParser.c
In file included from /home/aktest/link-4.1b/include/link-includes.h:2
+1,
                 from LinkParser.xs:5:
/home/aktest/link-4.1b/include/structures.h:94:1: warning: "assert" re
+defined
In file included from LinkParser.xs:2:
/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE/perl.h:3770:1: warning: this is the location o
+f the previous definition
LinkParser.c:47:5: error: macro "assert" requires 2 arguments, but onl
+y 1 given
LinkParser.c: In function ‘S_croak_xs_usage’:
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WriteMakefile(
   'NAME'         =>   "Lingua::LinkParser",
   'VERSION_FROM' =>   "lib/Lingua/LinkParser.pm",
   'DEFINE'       =>   "-DDICTIONARY_DIR=\\\".\\\"",

## if your libs are in a nonstandard location, changes these,i.e.:
  #   'LIBS'      =>   "-L/dbrian/link-grammar-4.4.3/link-grammar/.lib
+s/
-llink-grammar",
   #  'INC'       =>   "-I/dbrian/link-grammar-4.4.3/link-grammar/",
  'LIBS'          =>   "-llink-grammar",
  'INC'           =>   "-I/home/aktest/link-4.1b/include/",
   'OBJECT'       =>   "",
);
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You've got the wrong link-grammar source, I think. I grabbed this source and Lingua-LinkParser-1.14 built fine for me on linux (Mandrake-9.1), perl-5.12.0.

Having grabbed that source, I unpacked it to /home/rob/perlmods, then did a 'cd' to /home/rob/perlmods/link-grammar-4.4.3. I then ran ./configure --disable-shared --enable-static. If you want to build a shared (dynamic) lib, then run ./configure --disable-static --enable-shared instead. And if you want to install to somewhere other than /usr/local you'll need to add the --prefix=/home/aktest (or whatever) argument to the command.

After configure finished, I ran make followed by sudo make install. Then it was just a matter of building Lingua-LinkParser-1.14 in the "usual" way:
perl Makefile.PL followed by make test and then sudo make install.
See how you get on with that.

Cheers,
Rob.

I followed these 2010 instructions in 2019 and found that Lingua::LinkParser fails tests but seems to work after installing with --force (cpanm). Now I can enjoy "Parsing Natural Language with Lingua::LinkParser" from TPJ:

http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0010.html

Awesome !!! Thanks a ton Rob! It worked perfectly fine. The fact that Ubuntu already has link-grammar package (sudo apt-get install link-grammar) didn't help me in installing Lingua::LinkParser. I did a manual fetch of link-grammar as Rob suggested and followed the rest. Lingua::LinkParser working fine now..