Trouble installing PAR::Packer

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

I tried to install the PAR::Packer module on a Ubuntu 10.04 system with Perl 5.10.1 from the cpan shell. The install failed; these seem to be the relevant error messages:

*** You have extra Perl library paths set in your environment.
    Please note that these paths (set with PERL5LIB or PERLLIB)
    are not honored by perl when running under taint mode, which
    may lead to problems. This is a limitation (by design) of
    Perl, not of PAR::Packer; but some of the problems may
    manifest here during installation
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and

make[1]: *** [par] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bandi/.cpan/build/PAR-Packer-1.006-E
+wCcyq/myldr'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
  RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.006.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not installed, will not store persi
+stent state
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Failed during this command:
 RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.006.tar.gz              : make NO
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What do I do to fix this? Thanks for any help.

Edit: here's a bigger chunk of the console output:

Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not installed, will not store persi
+stent state

  CPAN.pm: Going to build R/RS/RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.006.tar.gz

*** You have extra Perl library paths set in your environment.
    Please note that these paths (set with PERL5LIB or PERLLIB)
    are not honored by perl when running under taint mode, which
    may lead to problems. This is a limitation (by design) of
    Perl, not of PAR::Packer; but some of the problems may
    manifest here during installation.

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for the par program
Writing Makefile for PAR::Packer
Could not read '/home/bandi/.cpan/build/PAR-Packer-1.006-EwCcyq/META.y
+ml'. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites
cp lib/PAR/Packer.pm blib/lib/PAR/Packer.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/PodStrip.pm blib/lib/PAR/Filter/PodStrip.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/Obfuscate.pm blib/lib/PAR/Filter/Obfuscate.pm
cp lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Base.pm blib/lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Base.pm
cp lib/App/Packer/PAR.pm blib/lib/App/Packer/PAR.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter.pm blib/lib/PAR/Filter.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/PatchContent.pm blib/lib/PAR/Filter/PatchContent.pm
cp lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Dynamic.pm blib/lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Dynamic.p
+m
cp lib/PAR/Filter/Bytecode.pm blib/lib/PAR/Filter/Bytecode.pm
cp lib/pp.pm blib/lib/pp.pm
cp lib/PAR/Filter/Bleach.pm blib/lib/PAR/Filter/Bleach.pm
cp lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Static.pm blib/lib/PAR/StrippedPARL/Static.pm
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/bandi/.cpan/build/PAR-Packer-1.006-
+EwCcyq/myldr'
/usr/bin/perl sha1.c.PL sha1.c
cc -c -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -
+fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFF
+SET_BITS=64  -I/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE  -DPARL_EXE=\"parl\" -O2 -g ma
+in.c
In file included from main.c:53:
mktmpdir.c: In function ‘par_mktmpdir’:
mktmpdir.c:190: warning: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared wit
+h attribute warn_unused_result
mktmpdir.c:195: warning: ignoring return value of ‘read’, declared wit
+h attribute warn_unused_result
/usr/bin/perl ./file2c.pl ../script/par.pl my_par_pl.c load_my_par_pl 
+1
cc -c -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -
+fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFF
+SET_BITS=64  -I/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE  -DPARL_EXE=\"parl\" -O2 -g my
+_par_pl.c
cc main.o my_par_pl.o  -s -Wl,-E  -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib  
+-L/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE -lperl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt -o ./
+par
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [par] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/bandi/.cpan/build/PAR-Packer-1.006-E
+wCcyq/myldr'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
  RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.006.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK
Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not installed, will not store persi
+stent state
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
Failed during this command:
 RSCHUPP/PAR-Packer-1.006.tar.gz              : make NO
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Re: Trouble installing PAR::Packer by Utilitarian (Vicar) on Jul 29, 2010 at 12:40 UTC
In an Ubuntu environment you can use the pre-built CPAN packages `apt-cache search PAR` [download] And then `sudo apt-get install libpar-packer-perl` [download] Note: you will have to enable universe packages as the package is part of universe `pool/universe/libp/libpar-packer-perl/libpar-packer-perl_0.991-1_i386 +.deb` [download] Edited with details of how to guarantee success `print "Good ",qw(night morning afternoon evening)[(localtime)[2]/6]," fellow monks."`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Trouble installing PAR::Packer by elef (Friar) on Jul 30, 2010 at 06:29 UTC
Thank you, that worked.	[reply]
Re: Trouble installing PAR::Packer by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jul 29, 2010 at 12:37 UTC
`make[1]: ** [par] Error 1`* What came before that ? (You might as well give it to us in its entirety.) Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]