You don’t have the XS version of Scalar::Util
cpan> force install Scalar::Util
Again I am installing djabberd on debian via cpan, have to install make, gcc, libc6-dev, libxml2-dev, openssl, libssl-dev.
I couldn’t get Net::SSLeay to install from CPAN, so I used libnet-ssleay-perl from debian.
UPDATE: See DJabberd on Debian
You rock!
This just solved a problem I’ve been looking at for two hours. Thanks a lot!
Hey mistermartin75! Thanks for commenting and letting me know that this post helped you out. Have fun with Debian it is amazingly great.
I just noticed I had to install libextutils-xsbuilder-perl using apt-get install when trying to force install Scalar::Util.
Thanks so much, you saved me a lot of time!
Documentation on Perl XS appears to be quite bad.
Now I have XS version of Scalar::Util and I could get Net::SSLeay (1.35) installed by cpan.
I needed that for having Net::SMTP::SSL installed, which in turn I needed to use Gmail SMTP server in Dada Mail (http://dadamailproject.com/).
So after:
apt-get install gcc libc6-dev openssl libssl-dev
(Maybe some of these isn’t needed but I don’t care now).
I could finally:
cpan -f Scalar::Util
How could I know that I needed gcc and something else to have the XS version of Scalar::Util?
Thanks again.
Hi Kamal,
Glad I could help, and thanks for commenting.
On debian you can do “apt-get build-dep packagename” to install the stuff needed to build that package from source.
- Albert