Your perl version is too old. Tim.
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 07:47:31PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > I'm trying to install the DBI-Module, but the C-compiler generates error > messages. I am quite a beginner in perl and I don't understand what's wrong. > Please could anybody help me? > > Here is what I've done: > > I am working on DEC OSF/1, with perl 5.004_04. The package I try to build is > DBI-1.201. > > I created the Makefile by > perl Makefile.PL -LIB=~/createstats11/lib > > Until here everything works fine. > After that I tried to make. Here's some of the output of it: > > .... > > cc -c -std -D_INTRINSICS -I/usr/local/include -D__LANGUAGE_C__ -O4 > -DVERSION=\"1.201\" -DXS_VERSION=\"1.201\" > -I/usr/opt/PERL5004/lib/perl5/alpha-dec_osf/5.00404/CORE -DDBI_NO_THREADS DBI.c > cc: Error: DBI.xs, line 1611: Error parsing parameter list. Found "*" when > expecting one of: ",", ")". (notexpecting) > dbi_dopoptosub_at(PERL_CONTEXT *cxstk, I32 startingblock) > -------------------------------^ > cc: Error: DBI.xs, line 1614: Missing ";". (nosemi) > register PERL_CONTEXT *cx; > --------------------------^ > cc: Error: DBI.xs, line 1637: Missing ";". (nosemi) > register PERL_CONTEXT *cx; > --------------------------^ > cc: Error: DBI.xs, line 1638: Missing ";". (nosemi) > register PERL_CONTEXT *ccstack = cxstack; > --------------------------^ > cc: Error: DBI.xs, line 1640: Invalid statement. (badstmt) > char *stashname; > ----^ > cc: Error: DBI.xs, line 1638: In this declaration, "PERL_CONTEXT" has no > linkage and has a prior declaration in this scope at line number 1637 in file > DBI.xs. (nolinkage) > register PERL_CONTEXT *ccstack = cxstack; > -------------^ > > .... > > I understand that there's something wrong with PERL_CONTEXT, but in fact I > don't understand what exactly it is and what I can do about it. > > Can anybody help me? > > Susanne Pfeiffer
