problem in installing modules

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

hi all i am a linux admin and one of my user asked me to install some modules in perl. I am using RHEL 5.4 and the perl version is 5.8.8 When i try to install the module XML/Parser i was getting the following error.

(i didnt post the whole error part)Expat.c:2687: error: āXML_Parserā u
+ndeclared (first use in this function)
Expat.c:2687: error: expected ā;ā before āparserā
Expat.c:2688: warning: ISO C90 forbids mixed declarations and code
Expat.xs:2194: error: āparserā undeclared (first use in this function)
Expat.xs:2194: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
Expat.xs:2205: warning: unused variable āpretā
Expat.xs:2194: warning: unused variable ācbvā
Expat.xs:2192: warning: unused variable ātypeā
make[1]: *** [Expat.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/.cpan/build/XML-Parser-2.40/Expat'
make: *** [subdirs] Error 2
  /usr/bin/make  -- NOT OK
Running make test
  Can't test without successful make
Running make install
  make had returned bad status, install seems impossible
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Please help me to solve this issue.

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Re: problem in installing modules by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 25, 2011 at 10:21 UTC
Have you made sure that RedHat has no prepackaged package for XML::Parser? At least a cursory redhat package xml::parser returns http://packages.sw.be/perl-XML-Parser/ (and likely more trusted repository elsewhere) that contains something that looks very much like the appropriate source RPMs for that package. I am no system administrator, at least not full time, but I prefer to use the OS package manager to install modules into the vendor provided Perl.	[reply]
Re^2: problem in installing modules by kingstons (Initiate) on Apr 26, 2011 at 11:02 UTC
thanks...i got the exact rpm to install the module and did that. But the thing is, now the system is keep on asking modules one by one. At last i installed the Tcl module and waiting for the user's update Thanks for your help	[reply]
Re: problem in installing modules by cdarke (Prior) on Apr 25, 2011 at 10:41 UTC
Firstly, the 'ā' is a quote, don't get distracted by that (probably because of your tty settings). Check that the dependant modules are the correct version. It looks to me that there is some sort of issue with a header file. In particular, from the XML::Parser README file: `requires that you have release 1.95.0 or greater of expat installed. You can download expat from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ Install 'expat-devel' package with your OS package manager. Debian: expat-dev Xubuntu 6.06: libexpat1-dev` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: problem in installing modules by Anonymous Monk on Apr 25, 2011 at 10:14 UTC
(i didnt post the whole error part) You should, it contains important details :)	[reply]