Installation failure for Net::Pcap PM

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Installation failed for Net::Pcap. Warnings mentioned in build.log about not available of list of functions. There are 17 warnings and i'm not able to proceed without installing Net::Pcap, please help.

./stubs.inc:187:2: warning: "the function pcap_list_datalinks() is not
+ available" [-W#warnings]
#warning "the function pcap_list_datalinks() is not available"
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./stubs.inc:322:2: warning: "the function pcap_createsrcstr() is not a
+vailable" [-W#warnings]
#warning "the function pcap_createsrcstr() is not available"
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17 warnings generated.
rm -f blib/arch/auto/Net/Pcap/Pcap.bundle
LD_RUN_PATH="/usr/lib" env MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 cc  -bundle -
+undefined dynamic_lookup -fstack-protector Pcap.o  -o blib/arch/auto/
+Net/Pcap/Pcap.bundle         \
           -lpcap       \

chmod 755 blib/arch/auto/Net/Pcap/Pcap.bundle
/Users/....../perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.20.0/bin/perl -MExtUtils::Co
+mmand::MM -e 'cp_nonempty' -- Pcap.bs blib/arch/auto/Net/Pcap/Pcap.bs
+ 644
cp bin/pcapinfo blib/script/pcapinfo
/Users/....../perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.20.0/bin/perl -MExtUtils::MY
+ -e 'MY->fixin(shift)' -- blib/script/pcapinfo
Manifying blib/man1/pcapinfo.1
Manifying blib/man3/Net::Pcap.3
Running Mkbootstrap for Net::Pcap ()
chmod 644 Pcap.bs
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /Users/......../perl5/perlbrew/perls/perl-5.20.0/bin
+/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test::
+Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
# Testing Net::Pcap 0.17 (libpcap version 1.3.0 - Apple version 41) un
+der Perl 5.020000
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Re: Installation failure for Net::Pcap PM by waytoperl (Beadle) on Aug 30, 2014 at 11:00 UTC
Installed by manual make and make install `cd /root/.cpanm/work/1380031926.xyzxyz/Net-Pcap-0.17/ (or wherever it' +s been unwrapped) perl Makefile.PL make && make install` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Installation failure for Net::Pcap PM by Anonymous Monk on Nov 02, 2019 at 02:34 UTC
That just installs the broken non-working module... you actually need to fix those errors if you want to use this...	[reply]
Re: Installation failure for Net::Pcap PM by thanos1983 (Parson) on Nov 02, 2019 at 18:45 UTC
Hello waytoperl, A bug has been reported for this module on CPAN see here (#80498: Net-Pcap Bugreport). The author recommends to install with force. BR / Thanos Seeking for Perl wisdom...on the process of learning...not there...yet!	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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