I believe that a new feature in the Makefile.PL tries to determine the 
location of the first swish-e in your PATH. If that version is not the 
current 2.5.2 version, then your header and library are out of sync.

if you are installing 2.5.2 in a different location that 2.4.2 (which is 
likely a good idea, since you're trying to set it up in parallel and 
then move over, I assume), you might set the SWISHBIN env variable prior 
to running perl Makefile.PL.

Example:

perl Makefile.PL SWISHBIN=/path/to/2.5.2/bin/swish-e

try:

perl Makefile.PL SWISHHELP

to see the new usage statement.

and finally, make sure you have done a 'make install' on the swish-e 
binary before compiling the perl API. That way the API is getting the 
current header and library files.

Brad Miele wrote on 11/15/04 8:22 AM:

> I am midway through the install of 2.5.2 on my machines,
> 
> I get the following error when running make in the perl directory:
> 
> su-2.05b# gmake
> cc -c   -DHAS_FPSETMASK -DHAS_FLOATINGPOINT_H -fno-strict-aliasing
> -I/usr/local/include -O   -DVERSION=\"0.03\" -DXS_VERSION=\"0.03\" -DPIC
> -fPIC "-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i386-freebsd/CORE"   API.c
> API.xs: In function `XS_SWISH__API_push_meta_list':
> API.xs:378: syntax error before `*'
> API.xs:379: `o' undeclared (first use in this function)
> API.xs:379: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> API.xs:379: for each function it appears in.)
> gmake: *** [API.o] Error 1
> su-2.05b#
> 
> line 378, where the trouble seems to begin, is:
> 
>             SV *o = sv_newmortal();
> 
> i am sure that this is something that I am doing wrong (standard
> disclaimer) any thoughts?
> 
> Brad
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