!!!!SOLVED!!!!! See below.

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!

In reply to [SOLVED] Cannot install CPAN modules by azredwing

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