Re^3: How to make distribution for simple script with CPAN dependencies?

[marto]

"And I tried to install PP and am getting errors :(

Which errors?

[peteyboy]

Two things: 1) There's been a bug reported on Curses::UI and the way it does its language phrase replacement which is apparently incompatible with fatpacker: https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=85231 Sadly, this bug is from 2013 and maybe beyond my ken to fix.

And 2nd, trying to install pp instead and maybe see if the PARs work better, these are the errors I got trying to install pp (this in my local lib, I'm on SDF.org):

"/usr/bin/perl" par_pl2c.pl my_par_pl < ../script/par.pl > my_par_pl.c
x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -c -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fwrapv -f
+no-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_
+FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.36/CORE  -DLD
+>x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -c -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -fwrapv 
+-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -
+D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64  -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.36/CORE  -D
+LD>x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc main.o sha1.o  -s -Wl,-E  -fstack-protector-s
+trong -L/usr/local/lib  -L/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.36/CORE -l
+perl -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lcrypt  -o ./par
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lperl: No such file or directory
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [Makefile:885: par] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/meta/p/peteyboy/.cpanm/work/1710133941.11
+99273/PAR-Packer-1.062/myldr'
make: *** [Makefile:577: subdirs] Error 2
-> FAIL Installing pp failed. See /meta/p/peteyboy/.cpanm/work/1710133
+941.1199273/build.log for details. Retry with --force to force instal
+l it.

[marto]

"Sadly, this bug is from 2013 and maybe beyond my ken to fix."

Does the specified workaround help?

For those who, like me, will find this ticket when googling the error 
+message:

Simply add the option

-M Curses::UI::Language::english

on the `pp` command line.

cpanm pp installs without issue for me on sdf-eu, is the BSD equivalent of libperl-dev isn't installed, can you locate libperl.so?