Devel::Hints compilation error on RHEL7

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

I am trying to install perl-Devel-Hints v0-21 on RHEL7. The Perl version is perl-5.16.3-295.el7.x86_64. When 'cpanm' tries to build it, I get the following error:

Building and testing Devel-Hints-0.21
cp Hints.pm blib/lib/Devel/Hints.pm
/usr/bin/perl "-Iinc" /home/myuser/perl5/lib/perl5/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -t
+ypemap /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap  Hints.xs >
+ Hints.xsc && mv Hints.xsc Hints.c
Please specify prototyping behavior for Hints.xs (see perlxs manual)
gcc -c   -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack
+-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BI
+TS=64 -Wno-format-security   -DVERSION=\"0.21\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.21\"
+ -fPIC "-I/usr/lib64/perl5/CORE" Hints.c
Hints.xs: In function 'cop_stashpv':
Hints.xs:186:44: error: macro "CopSTASHPV_set" requires 3 arguments, b
+ut only 2 given
     SET(stashpv, CopSTASHPV_set(cop, value));
                                            ^
Hints.xs:186:18: error: 'CopSTASHPV_set' undeclared (first use in this
+ function)
     SET(stashpv, CopSTASHPV_set(cop, value));
                  ^
Hints.xs:37:17: note: in definition of macro 'SET'
                 s;                                      \
                 ^
Hints.xs:186:18: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only onc
+e for each function it appears in
     SET(stashpv, CopSTASHPV_set(cop, value));
                  ^
Hints.xs:37:17: note: in definition of macro 'SET'
                 s;                                      \
                 ^
Hints.xs: In function 'cop_arybase':
Hints.xs:19:30: error: 'COP' has no member named 'cop_arybase'
 #define CopARYBASE_set(c,v) c->cop_arybase = v
                              ^
Hints.xs:37:17: note: in definition of macro 'SET'
                 s;                                      \
                 ^
Hints.xs:231:18: note: in expansion of macro 'CopARYBASE_set'
     SET(arybase, CopARYBASE_set(cop, value));
                  ^
Hints.xs:16:28: error: 'COP' has no member named 'cop_arybase'
 #define CopARYBASE_get(c) c->cop_arybase
                            ^
Hints.xs:233:12: note: in expansion of macro 'CopARYBASE_get'
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I have searched high and wide and cannot find out how to fix this. I did find a bug item, but it just says it was fixed in GitHub. Does anyone have a solution for this?

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Re: Devel::Hints compilation error on RHEL7 by haukex (Archbishop) on Aug 05, 2020 at 19:54 UTC
Those errors look very similar to CPAN Testers results such as this one, and the matrix shows that the last Perl release that the module worked on was 5.14.4, and on 5.16 and up doesn't build. I did find a bug item, but it just says it was fixed in GitHub. Where did you find this? Can you provide a link? By the way, the last release of the module is almost 10 years ago now. Since it deals with Perl's internals, why do you need it?	[reply]
Re^2: Devel::Hints compilation error on RHEL7 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Aug 06, 2020 at 01:38 UTC
Where did you find this? Can you provide a link? Perhaps mfrei is alluding to https://github.com/gitpan/Devel-Hints. mfrei might find that this github version provides sufficient mileage ... or it might not .... Cheers, Rob	[reply]


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