Error installing Inline::C 0.75

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

When installing Inline::C either from cpan or from download, the following error comes up:

  CPAN.pm: Going to build I/IN/INGY/Inline-C-0.75.tar.gz

syntax error at Makefile.PL line 13, near "install_share dist"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 8
+6.
Warning: No success on command[/usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=
+/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4]
  INGY/Inline-C-0.75.tar.gz
  /usr/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4 -
+- NOT OK
Running make test
  Make had some problems, won't test
Running make install
  Make had some problems, won't install
Failed during this command:
 INGY/Inline-C-0.75.tar.gz                    : writemakefile NO '/usr
+/local/bin/perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.4' retur
+ned status 65280
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What can I do to fix this?

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Re: Error installing Inline::C 0.75 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 27, 2015 at 01:21 UTC
For anyone interested in the solution to this problem, it has now also been raised as an Inline-C issue on github. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^2: Error installing Inline::C 0.75 by Anonymous Monk on Jun 27, 2015 at 04:32 UTC
Beh, how uninteresting , no version information about the "modules" involved, very shallow investigation into the issue by the OP :)	[reply]
Re: Error installing Inline::C 0.75 by Anonymous Monk on Jun 26, 2015 at 03:00 UTC
What can I do to fix this? Thats weird, it should install File::ShareDir::Install before trying Inline::C You can always `cpan File::ShareDir::Install` and then install Inline::C Other options is upgrade cpan, install the latest cpan, run `cpan CPAN` , then afterwards `cpan Inline::C` Or install App::cpanminus, then use `cpanm Inline::C` There is no need Khen1950fx nonsense	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Error installing Inline::C 0.75 by syphilis (Archbishop) on Jun 26, 2015 at 03:48 UTC
Thats weird, it should install File::ShareDir::Install before trying Inline::C Not that I use CPAN.pm much, but I think it won't even know that File::ShareDir::Install is needed until the I::C Makefile.PL has been run ... and it can't run that file because it detects a syntax error. All of which makes me wonder whether it's such a good idea to provide a Makefile.PL that wants to load Fie::ShareDir::Install. I was thinking that File::ShareDir::Install must be present because it apparently loads ok - and that it might therefore be a version that is too old. In any case, the first thing to do is, as you suggested, install the latest version of File::ShareDir::Install. Another thing that might need to be done is to install version 7.04 (or later ?) of ExtUtils::MakeMaker as it often (always ?) causes problems with recent versions of I::C if an earler version of EU::MM is being used. Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re^3: Error installing Inline::C 0.75 by Anonymous Monk on Jun 27, 2015 at 04:19 UTC
Not that I use CPAN.pm much, but I think it won't even know that File::ShareDir::Install is needed until the I::C Makefile.PL has been run ... and it can't run that file because it detects a syntax error. I'm confident that is what all that META stuff is about, and old CPAN.pm did not META, with META it isn't required to run Makefile.PL to determine a dependency on File::ShareDir::Install All of which makes me wonder whether it's such a good idea to provide a Makefile.PL that wants to load Fie::ShareDir::Install. Well, you know the solution, pack the extra dependencies into your distribution, like inc style like Module::Install::Bundle - Bundle distributions along with your distribution	[reply]
Re: Error installing Inline::C 0.75 by Khen1950fx (Canon) on Jun 26, 2015 at 01:17 UTC
Run this first: `#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use CPAN; CPAN::Shell->install(qw( File::Copy::Recursive IO::Dir File::ShareDir::Install Pegex autodie Text::Balanced Parse::RecDescent DigestLLMD5 Exporter constant Sub::Uplevel Carp Test::Warn Test::More Inline YAML::XS version Cwd ExtUtils::MakeMaker Scalar::Util IO::All), );` [download] Then manually install like this: `/usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL make make test make install` [download] Remember: Perl makes hard things easier, not easy things harder.	[reply] [d/l] [select]


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