Failure to build Perl 5.10.1 on Fedora 14 under perlbrew

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

I have a newly installed Fedora 14 system that I'd like to install various perls on to test different modules. I've got 5.8.9 already and was trying to get 5.10: perlbrew install perl-5.10.1 That hums along until it fails with the following error:

Making all in ext/ODBM_File
 make all PERL_CORE=1 LIBPERL_A=libperl.a
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/mpeters/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5
+.10.1/ext/ODBM_File'
cc -c   -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/incl
+ude -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2   -DVERSION=\"1.07
+\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.07\" -fPIC "-I../.."   ODBM_File.c
ODBM_File.xs:16:7: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribut
+e__’ before ‘fetch’
ODBM_File.xs:17:17: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘key’
ODBM_File.xs:18:18: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘key’
ODBM_File.xs:19:7: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribut
+e__’ before ‘firstkey’
ODBM_File.xs:20:7: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribut
+e__’ before ‘nextkey’
ODBM_File.xs:50:15: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribu
+te__’ before ‘datum_key’
ODBM_File.xs:51:15: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribu
+te__’ before ‘datum_key_copy’
ODBM_File.xs:52:15: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribu
+te__’ before ‘datum_value’
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Any thoughts about what I might be missing?

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Re: Failure to build Perl 5.10.1 on Fedora 14 under perlbrew by ikegami (Patriarch) on May 18, 2011 at 17:38 UTC
I've gotten that error when trying to compile C++ with a C compiler (or was it the other way around). Don't have time to look into it more right now.	[reply]
Re^2: Failure to build Perl 5.10.1 on Fedora 14 under perlbrew by mpeters (Chaplain) on May 18, 2011 at 18:19 UTC
That doesn't really seem likely unless `ODBM_File.xs` is a C++ file, which I doubt it is.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Failure to build Perl 5.10.1 on Fedora 14 under perlbrew by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 08, 2013 at 04:06 UTC
First of all, it's `ODBM_File.c` being compiled, not `ODBM_File.xs`. And yes, it's a C file, not a file C++. It wouldn't make much sense to use a C++ compiler to compile it (cause it would give you the errors you see), but that doesn't have anything to do with the likeliness of it happening. Did you check what compiler is being used?	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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