[Swig-user] perl swig problem: cannot even compile example from tutorial

[<oli...@rz...>]

Hello everybody,

I have successfully compiled and installed swig 1.1-883.
I cd'd into the directory Examples/perl5/simple and typed "make" and got 
the following response:

perl5/simple> make
make -f ../../../Makefile.template SRCS='example.c' SWIG='../../../swig' \
SWIGOPT='' TARGET='example' INTERFACE='example.i' perl5
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/SWIG1.1-883/Examples/perl5/simple'
../../../swig -perl5  example.i
Generating wrappers for Perl 5
gcc -c -Dbool=char -fpic  example.c example_wrap.c 
-I/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.1/i586-linux-thread-multi/CORE
example_wrap.c: In function `_swig_create_magic':
example_wrap.c:416: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
example_wrap.c:417: warning: assignment from incompatible pointer type
example_wrap.c: At top level:
example_wrap.c:559: error: conflicting types for 'boot_example'
example_wrap.c:431: error: previous declaration of 'boot_example' was here
example_wrap.c:559: error: conflicting types for 'boot_example'
example_wrap.c:431: error: previous declaration of 'boot_example' was here
make[1]: *** [perl5] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/SWIG1.1-883/Examples/perl5/simple'
make: *** [all] Error 2


So swig writes the wrapper code but it does not get compiled. Does 
anyone know what the problem is? Please help!

Thanks a lot,
Oliver