I'm trying to install the XML::Parser perl module using CPAN and can't get it to work. Below is the output that is being displayed by CPAN which appears to indicate that Expat is the issue.
Geting this installed is critical for us and I'm at a loss as to what to do next. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
cpan[1]> install XML::Parser CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.21) Going to read '/root/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:29:49 GMT Running install for module 'XML::Parser' Running make for C/CH/CHORNY/XML-Parser-2.40.tar.gz CPAN: Digest::SHA loaded ok (v5.48) CPAN: Compress::Zlib loaded ok (v2.03) Checksum for /root/.cpan/sources/authors/id/C/CH/CHORNY/XML-Parser-2.40.tar.gz ok Scanning cache /root/.cpan/build for sizes ............................................................................DONE CPAN: Archive::Tar loaded ok (v1.68) XML-Parser-2.40 XML-Parser-2.40/Changes XML-Parser-2.40/Makefile.PL XML-Parser-2.40/MANIFEST XML-Parser-2.40/META.yml XML-Parser-2.40/Parser.pm XML-Parser-2.40/README XML-Parser-2.40/Expat XML-Parser-2.40/Expat/encoding.h XML-Parser-2.40/Expat/Expat.pm XML-Parser-2.40/Expat/Expat.xs XML-Parser-2.40/Expat/Makefile.PL XML-Parser-2.40/Expat/typemap XML-Parser-2.40/inc XML-Parser-2.40/inc/Devel XML-Parser-2.40/inc/Devel/CheckLib.pm XML-Parser-2.40/Parser XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/LWPExternEnt.pl XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/big5.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/euc-kr.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/ibm866.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-2.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-3.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-4.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-5.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-7.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-8.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-9.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/Japanese_Encodings.msg XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/koi8-r.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/README XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/windows-1250.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/windows-1251.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/windows-1252.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/windows-1255.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-jisx0221.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-unicode.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-cp932.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jdk117.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jisx0221.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-unicode.enc XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Style XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Style/Debug.pm XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Style/Objects.pm XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Style/Stream.pm XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Style/Subs.pm XML-Parser-2.40/Parser/Style/Tree.pm XML-Parser-2.40/samples XML-Parser-2.40/samples/canonical XML-Parser-2.40/samples/canontst.xml XML-Parser-2.40/samples/ctest.dtd XML-Parser-2.40/samples/REC-xml-19980210.xml XML-Parser-2.40/samples/xmlcomments XML-Parser-2.40/samples/xmlfilter XML-Parser-2.40/samples/xmlstats XML-Parser-2.40/t XML-Parser-2.40/t/astress.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/cdata.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/decl.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/defaulted.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/encoding.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/ext.ent XML-Parser-2.40/t/ext2.ent XML-Parser-2.40/t/external_ent.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/file.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/finish.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/foo.dtd XML-Parser-2.40/t/namespaces.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/parament.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/partial.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/skip.t XML-Parser-2.40/t/stream.t /bin/tar: Read 3072 bytes from - XML-Parser-2.40/t/styles.t CPAN: File::Temp loaded ok (v0.22) CPAN: Parse::CPAN::Meta loaded ok (v1.40) CPAN.pm: Going to build C/CH/CHORNY/XML-Parser-2.40.tar.gz Expat must be installed prior to building XML::Parser and I can't find it in the standard library directories. Install 'expat-devel' package with your OS package manager. Or you can download expat from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/ If expat is installed, but in a non-standard directory, then use the following options to Makefile.PL: EXPATLIBPATH=... To set the directory in which to find libexpat EXPATINCPATH=... To set the directory in which to find expat.h For example: perl Makefile.PL EXPATLIBPATH=/home/me/lib EXPATINCPATH=/home/me/include Note that if you build against a shareable library in a non-standard location you may (on some platforms) also have to set your LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable at run time for perl to find the library. Checking if your kit is complete... Looks good Writing Makefile for XML::Parser::Expat Writing Makefile for XML::Parser Could not read metadata file. Falling back to other methods to determine prerequisites cp Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-cp932.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-cp932.enc cp Parser/Encodings/koi8-r.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/koi8-r.enc cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-7.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-7.enc cp Parser/Encodings/ibm866.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/ibm866.enc cp Parser/Style/Tree.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser/Style/Tree.pm cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-9.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-9.enc cp Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-unicode.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-unicode.enc cp Parser/Encodings/README blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/README cp Parser/Encodings/euc-kr.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/euc-kr.enc cp Parser/Encodings/windows-1250.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/windows-1250.enc cp Parser/Encodings/windows-1252.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/windows-1252.enc cp Parser/Encodings/big5.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/big5.enc cp Parser/Encodings/windows-1255.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/windows-1255.enc cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-3.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-3.enc cp Parser/Encodings/Japanese_Encodings.msg blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/Japanese_Encodings.msg cp Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-jisx0221.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-euc-jp-jisx0221.enc cp Parser/Style/Subs.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser/Style/Subs.pm cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-8.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-8.enc cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-4.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-4.enc cp Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jdk117.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jdk117.enc cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-2.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-2.enc cp Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-unicode.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-unicode.enc cp Parser/LWPExternEnt.pl blib/lib/XML/Parser/LWPExternEnt.pl cp Parser/Style/Objects.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser/Style/Objects.pm cp Parser.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser.pm cp Parser/Style/Debug.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser/Style/Debug.pm cp Parser/Encodings/windows-1251.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/windows-1251.enc cp Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jisx0221.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/x-sjis-jisx0221.enc cp Parser/Style/Stream.pm blib/lib/XML/Parser/Style/Stream.pm cp Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-5.enc blib/lib/XML/Parser/Encodings/iso-8859-5.enc make[1]: Entering directory `/root/.cpan/build/XML-Parser-2.40-xNvsuv/Expat' cp Expat.pm ../blib/lib/XML/Parser/Expat.pm /usr/bin/perl /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/xsubpp -noprototypes -typemap /usr/share/perl5/ExtUtils/typemap -typemap typemap Expat.xs > Expat.xsc && mv Expat.xsc Expat.c gcc -c -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g -pipe -Wall -Wp,-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fexceptions -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -m32 -march=i386 -mtune=generic -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -DVERSION=\"2.40\" -DXS_VERSION=\"2.40\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl5/CORE" Expat.c Expat.xs:12:19: error: expat.h: No such file or directory Expat.xs:60: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before ‘XML_Parser’ Expat.xs:111: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘nsdelim’ Expat.xs:194: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘ms’ Expat.xs:197: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘parser’ Expat.xs:249: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘*’ token Expat.xs:286: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘parser’ Expat.xs: In function ‘characterData’: Expat.xs:470: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘char_sv’ Expat.xs: In function ‘startElement’: Expat.xs:482: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘ns’ Expat.xs:488: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial’ Expat.xs:490: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘skip_until’ Expat.xs:491: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial’ Expat.xs:491: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘skip_until’ Expat.xs:494: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘skip_until’ Expat.xs:498: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial_stackptr’ Expat.xs:498: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial_stacksize’ Expat.xs:499: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial_stacksize’ Expat.xs:501: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial_stack’ Expat.xs:501: error: ‘CallbackVectorâ has no member named âst_serial_stackâ Expat.xs:502: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial_stacksize’ Expat.xs:505: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial_stack’ Expat.xs:505: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial_stackptr’ Expat.xs:505: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial’ Expat.xs:508: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘nstab’ Expat.xs:508: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘nslst’ Expat.xs:512: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘start_sv’ Expat.xs:512: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘start_sv’ Expat.xs:512: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘start_sv’ Expat.xs:512: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘start_sv’ Expat.xs:512: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘start_sv’ Expat.xs:512: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘start_sv’ Expat.xs:512: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘start_sv’ Expat.xs:512: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘start_sv’ Expat.xs:512: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘start_sv’ Expat.xs:530: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘nstab’ Expat.xs:530: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘nslst’ Expat.xs:539: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘start_sv’ Expat.xs:545: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘context’ Expat.xs:547: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘ns’ Expat.xs:548: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘new_prefix_list’ Expat.xs:485: warning: unused variable ‘pnslst’ Expat.xs:484: warning: unused variable ‘pnstab’ Expat.xs:481: warning: unused variable ‘pcontext’ Expat.xs: In function ‘endElement’: Expat.xs:559: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘context’ Expat.xs:561: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial_stackptr’ Expat.xs:565: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘skip_until’ Expat.xs:565: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘end_sv’ Expat.xs:565: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘end_sv’ Expat.xs:565: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘end_sv’ Expat.xs:565: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘end_sv’ Expat.xs:565: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘end_sv’ Expat.xs:565: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘end_sv’ Expat.xs:565: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘end_sv’ Expat.xs:565: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘end_sv’ Expat.xs:565: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘end_sv’ Expat.xs:575: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘end_sv’ Expat.xs:581: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘st_serial_stackptr’ Expat.xs: In function ‘processingInstruction’: Expat.xs:601: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘proc_sv’ Expat.xs: In function ‘commenthandle’: Expat.xs:621: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘cmnt_sv’ Expat.xs: In function ‘startCdata’: Expat.xs:633: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘startcd_sv’ Expat.xs:640: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘startcd_sv’ Expat.xs: In function ‘endCdata’: Expat.xs:653: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘endcd_sv’ Expat.xs:660: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘endcd_sv’ Expat.xs: At top level: Expat.xs:668: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘XML_Char’ Expat.xs:668: error: expected ‘;’, ‘,’ or ‘)’ before ‘*’ token Expat.xs:688: warning: type defaults to ‘int’ in declaration of ‘XML_Char’ Expat.xs:688: error: expected ‘;’, ‘,’ or ‘)’ before ‘*’ token Expat.xs: In function ‘defaulthandle’: Expat.xs:720: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘dflt_sv’ Expat.xs: At top level: Expat.xs:729: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘XML_Content’ Expat.xs: In function ‘elementDecl’: Expat.xs:738: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘generate_model’ Expat.xs:738: error: ‘model’ undeclared (first use in this function) Expat.xs:738: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once Expat.xs:738: error: for each function it appears in.) Expat.xs:738: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast Expat.xs:747: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘eledcl_sv’ Expat.xs: In function ‘attributeDecl’: Expat.xs:785: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘attdcl_sv’ Expat.xs: In function ‘entityDecl’: Expat.xs:818: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘entdcl_sv’ Expat.xs: In function ‘doctypeStart’: Expat.xs:844: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘doctyp_sv’ Expat.xs: In function ‘doctypeEnd’: Expat.xs:861: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘doctypfin_sv’ Expat.xs: In function ‘xmlDecl’: Expat.xs:887: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘xmldec_sv’ Expat.xs: In function ‘unparsedEntityDecl’: Expat.xs:915: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘unprsd_sv’ Expat.xs: In function ‘notationDecl’: Expat.xs:956: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘notation_sv’ Expat.xs: At top level: Expat.xs:960: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘parser’ Expat.xs:1115: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘XML_Encoding’ Expat.xs: In function ‘unknownEncoding’: Expat.xs:1146: warning: unused variable ‘count’ Expat.xs:1167: error: ‘info’ undeclared (first use in this function) Expat.xs: In function ‘recString’: Expat.xs:1187: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘recstring’ Expat.xs:1188: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘recstring’ Expat.xs:1191: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘recstring’ Expat.xs: In function ‘suspend_callbacks’: Expat.xs:1197: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘char_sv’ Expat.xs:1197: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘char_sv’ Expat.xs:1197: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘char_sv’ Expat.xs:1197: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘char_sv’ Expat.xs:1197: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘char_sv’ Expat.xs:1197: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘char_sv’ Expat.xs:1197: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘char_sv’ Expat.xs:1197: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘char_sv’ Expat.xs:1197: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘char_sv’ Expat.xs:1198: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘XML_SetCharacterDataHandler’ Expat.xs:1198: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘p’ Expat.xs:1199: error: ‘XML_CharacterDataHandler’ undeclared (first use in this function) Expat.xs:1199: error: expected ‘)’ before numeric constant Expat.xs:1202: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘proc_sv’ Expat.xs:1202: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘proc_sv’ Expat.xs:1202: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘proc_sv’ Expat.xs:1202: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘proc_sv’ Expat.xs:1202: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘proc_sv’ Expat.xs:1202: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘proc_sv’ Expat.xs:1202: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘proc_sv’ Expat.xs:1202: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘proc_sv’ Expat.xs:1202: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘proc_sv’ Expat.xs:1203: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘XML_SetProcessingInstructionHandler’ Expat.xs:1203: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘p’ Expat.xs:1204: error: ‘XML_ProcessingInstructionHandler’ undeclared (first use in this function) Expat.xs:1204: error: expected ‘)’ before numeric constant Expat.xs:1207: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘cmnt_sv’ Expat.xs:1207: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘cmnt_sv’ Expat.xs:1207: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘cmnt_sv’ Expat.xs:1207: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘cmnt_sv’ Expat.xs:1207: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘cmnt_sv’ Expat.xs:1207: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘cmnt_sv’ Expat.xs:1207: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘cmnt_sv’ Expat.xs:1207: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘cmnt_sv’ Expat.xs:1207: error: ‘CallbackVector’ has no member named ‘cmnt_sv’ make[1]: *** [Expat.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/.cpan/build/XML-Parser-2.40-xNvsuv/Expat' make: *** [subdirs] Error 2 CHORNY/XML-Parser-2.40.tar.gz /usr/bin/make -- NOT OK CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.72) Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible Failed during this command: CHORNY/XML-Parser-2.40.tar.gz : make NO 
apt-get install libexpat1-devorlib64expat1-dev