llancet has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi monks!

I'm trying to be able to call R functions in perl script, and I decided to install RSPerl. While compiling it, an fatal error was given by gcc:

gcc -m64 -std=gnu99 -I/usr/include/R -I. -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE - +DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I +/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -I/usr +/lib64/perl5/CORE -DPERL_POLLUTE -D_R_=1 -DUSE_R=1 -DUSE_TOPLEVEL_ +EXEC=1 -DWITH_R_IN_PERL=1 -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O2 -g -pipe + -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param +=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m64 -mtune=generic -c xsinit.c -o xsinit.o xsinit.c: In function xs_init: xsinit.c:30: error: my_perl undeclared (first use in this function)

It seems that xsinit.c is from ExtUtils::Embed. I googled about that error, it's all about apache's mod_perl in cygwin, and filled with C knowledges that I don't understand...

I'm working on Fedora 13 os, with Perl 5.10.1 and gcc 4.4.4 shipped with Fedora, ExtUtils::Embed 1.14 get from cpan.

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Re: RSPerl an error on xsinit.c
by affc (Scribe) on Jun 18, 2010 at 10:34 UTC
    ExtUtils::Embed is at version 1.28 now. I have myself version 1.27 and compiled RSPerl successfully on Ubuntu Lucid (perl 5.10.1).
      Solved by installing ExtUtils::Embed from Fedora repo using yum.
      That's really weird. Should cpan -if ExtUtils::Embed provide me the latest version?