Perl MakeMaker error

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

Dear monks,

I have compiled a perl 5.8.9 (my OS is Ubuntu 9.0.4) using the commands:

./Configure -der -Uusedl -Dprefix=/usr
make
cp perl /home/perl/usr/bin
miniperl installperl --destdir=/home/perl
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make check succeeds in the perl directory. However when I try to run on a module perl Makefile.PL I get the following error:

export PERL5LIB=/home/perl/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.9
/home/perl/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL 
PERL_LIB=/home/perl/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.9
PERL_ARCHLIB=/home/perl/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.9
INSTALLSITELIB=/home/perl/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.9
INSTALLSITEARCH=/home/perl/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.9 DESTDIR=/home/perl
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I get:

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Can't locate object method "init_MAKE" via package "PACK001" at
/home/perl/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.9/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm line 544.
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Thanks in advance for your assistance,
Athanasia

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Re: Perl MakeMaker error by DrHyde (Prior) on Apr 30, 2009 at 09:54 UTC
What happens if you build perl according to the instructions in the `INSTALL` file? Specifically ... `./Configure [your options] make make test make install` [download] instead of randomly copying files around, and if you also make the `-Dprefix` match what you actually appear to want, namely `/home/perl/usr` instead of `/usr`? And finally - `-Uusedl` turns dynamic loading off, so XS won't work unless you rebuild perl. That's gonna break things for you in the future.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Perl MakeMaker error by Anonymous Monk on Apr 29, 2009 at 18:24 UTC
What module? Which version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker (pmvers ExtUtils::MakeMaker)?	[reply]
Re^2: Perl MakeMaker error by athanasia (Pilgrim) on Apr 30, 2009 at 06:53 UTC
Hi, Thanks for your reply. The module is XML::Parser but it seems to be working fine when compiling it for my system's Perl, that is 5.10.0. However, I want to cross-compile it for Perl 5.8.9 which seems to cause the problem. The version of ExtUtils::MakeMaker is 6.48. Cheers, Athanasia	[reply]