Problem compiling Exim on CentOS 5 (perl-ExtUtils-Embed Problem)

Hi,

So this is my last resort.
I am unable to build Exim because of the documented problem

FOUND HERE:
http://help.directadmin.com/item.php?id=396
http://www.directadmin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=43988&page=1
and in a million other places

I am on CentOS 5.8.
I've tried every yum repo I can find, but it simple does not know what perl-ExtUtils-Embed is.

I've tried manually installing from RPM, I cannot find EL5 versions of the RPM so I have tried a million other options and if fails with deps that it cannot fix.

I've tried manually compiling perl Embed module. It goes through what it needs to, but still the Exim build fails.

I'm kind of at my whits end at this point. I've turned off Exim until I can install the 4.80.1 update to fix latest security flaws.

Please can somebody help. I feel dumb at this point.

CyPh

Hello,

What do you get when you try to use cpan? John

DirectAdmin Support said:

Hello,

What do you get when you try to use cpan?

Code:

cpan -i ExtUtils::Embed

John

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Running install for module 'ExtUtils::Embed'
CPAN: Data:umper loaded ok (v2.124)
'YAML' not installed, falling back to Data:umper and Storable to read prefs '/root/.cpan/prefs'
The most recent version "1.30" of the module "ExtUtils::Embed"
is part of the perl-5.17.4 distribution. To install that, you need to run
force install ExtUtils::Embed --or--
install F/FL/FLORA/perl-5.17.4.tar.bz2
Running make test
Can't test without successful make
Running make install
Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible