undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr when Installing with ActivePerl

Krasimir Berov

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Mar 7, 2015, 5:04:30 AM3/7/15

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Francisco wrote:

Finally I could find sometime to follow on this...

I did install ActivePerl:

[fortizmu@web433 Ado-0.83]$ which perl
~/lib/perl5/perls/ActivePerl-

5.18/bin/perl

[fortizmu@web433 Ado-0.83]$ perl -v
This is perl 5, version 18, subversion 4 (v5.18.4) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

When I try to install Ado, I get the following message:
[fortizmu@web433 Ado-0.83]$ perl Build.PL --install_base /home/fortizmu/lib/perl5/lib/perl5
perl: symbol lookup error: /home/fortizmu/lib/perl5/lib64/perl5/auto/version/vxs/vxs.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Istack_sp_ptr

I've been reading it might be a matter regarding of mixing Perl "local" installations (in this case ActivePerl) with system wide Perl.
Also, I've tried to set some variables on my environment (PATH, PERL5LIB), but no result.

Might you have a hint?

Thanks and have a nice weekend!

Krasimir Berov

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Mar 7, 2015, 5:25:10 AM3/7/15

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Hi Francisco,
Looks like the problem is exactly this. You have somewhere in your $PERL5LIB or $PATH a path which in this case goes before the ActivePerl one.
Other people faced this problem too:
http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=968826

Try the following:

#1. Find which perl you are using? In my case it shows the following
$ which perl
/home/berov/opt/ActivePerl-5.18/bin/perl

To set it add the path to .bashrc. In my case I have:
PATH=$MYOPT/ActivePerl-5.18/site/bin:$MYOPT/ActivePerl-5.18/bin:$PATH
export PATH;
#2. Do not put in $PERL5LIB additional folders. when running Ado.
Well you can, but the main Idea is to try to not mess up paths.
Check your $PERL5LIB. I put there only my stuff while developing:
echo $PERL5LIB
/home/berov/opt/public_dev/mojolicious-plugin-assetpack/lib:/home/berov/opt/public_dev/mojo/lib:/home/berov/opt/public_dev/Ado-Plugin-Admin/lib:/home/berov/opt/public_dev/Ado/lib

If you own the machine or have access to gcc, you can use also perlbrew (https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/App-perlbrew/bin/perlbrew)
see also https://metacpan.org/pod/Ado::Manual::Installation

fortizmu

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Mar 7, 2015, 7:46:31 PM3/7/15

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Hello Krasi,

I was able to install Ado! :-)

After I could install a local perl version with perlbrew (perlbrew install perl-5.16.0), then

1) I cleared up my PERL5LIB and deleted local lib directories

2) Installed Mojolicious with cpanm

[fortizmu@web433 ~]$ which mojo

~/lib/perl5/perls/perl-5.18.0/bin/mojo

3) Installed Ado... in two steps

3.1) the first run of "cpanm Ado" got stuck at some point...

[fortizmu@web433 perl5]$ cpanm Ado

--> Working on Ado

Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BE/BEROV/Ado-0.83.tar.gz ... OK

Configuring Ado-0.83 ... OK

==> Found dependencies: Mojolicious::Plugin::DSC, Locale::Maketext, DBIx::Simple::Class, Text::MultiMarkdown, Mojolicious::Plugin::SemanticUI, Email::Address

--> Working on Mojolicious::Plugin::DSC

Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BE/BEROV/Mojolicious-Plugin-DSC-1.004.tar.gz ... OK

Configuring Mojolicious-Plugin-DSC-1.004 ... OK

==> Found dependencies: DBIx::Simple::Class

--> Working on DBIx::Simple::Class

Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/B/BE/BEROV/DBIx-Simple-Class-1.008.tar.gz ... OK

Configuring DBIx-Simple-Class-1.008 ... OK

==> Found dependencies: DBIx::Simple, DBD::SQLite

--> Working on DBIx::Simple

Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JU/JUERD/DBIx-Simple-1.35.tar.gz ... OK

Configuring DBIx-Simple-1.35 ... OK

==> Found dependencies: DBI

--> Working on DBI

Fetching http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/T/TI/TIMB/DBI-1.633.tar.gz ... OK

Configuring DBI-1.633 ... OK

Building and testing DBI-1.633 ...

but stays after more than 15min...

[fortizmu@web433 ~]$ ps -u fortizmu -o rss,etime,pid,command

RSS ELAPSED PID COMMAND

21208 16:02 30703 perl /home/fortizmu/lib/perl5/bin/cpanm Ado

3.2) Then run again (after starting again a shell)

[fortizmu@web433 perls]$ cpanm Ado

.....