Thank you!! I was indeed missing the perl-devel package. After I installed it the Filesys::Df module installed properly. Thank you for your help!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/21/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Glenn Steen</b> <<a href="mailto:glenn.steen@gmail.com">glenn.steen@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 21/08/06, Douglas Ward <<a href="mailto:dward@nccumc.org">dward@nccumc.org</a>> wrote:<br>> Julian,<br>><br>> Perl command fails with the following error:<br>><br>><br>> Writing Makefile for Filesys::Df
<br>> CPAN: YAML loaded ok<br>> cp <a href="http://Df.pm">Df.pm</a> blib/lib/Filesys/Df.pm<br>> /usr/bin/perl5.8.7 /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/ExtUtils/xsubpp<br>> -prototypes -typemap /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/ExtUtils/typemap
<br>> -typemap typemap Df.xs > Df.xsc && mv Df.xsc Df.c<br>> make: *** No rule to make target<br>> `/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i386-linux/CORE/EXTERN.h', needed by<br>> `Df.o'. Stop.<br>> /usr/bin/make install
<a href="http://Df.pm">Df.pm</a> -- NOT OK<br>> Running make test<br>> Can't test without successful make<br>> Running make install<br>> make had returned bad status, install seems impossible<br>> Failed during this command:
<br>> IGUTHRIE/Filesys-Df-0.92.tar.gz : make NO<br>><br>><br>Hi Douglas,<br><br>I just tried installing it from cpan, without any problems. I did the<br>install for perl 5.8.7 on a Mandriva 2006.0 (Official).
<br>The error you get kind of suggest that you've forgotten to install the<br>perl-devel package, which contains the header file EXTERN.h ... Try<br>doing an "urpmi perl-devel" (as root) and then rerun the cpan install.
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