Re: [Nms-cgi-devel] Re: [Nms-cgi-support] FW: Perl 5.8.0 RC3

[Jonathan S. <gel...@ge...>]

On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Nick Cleaton wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 09:37:38AM -0700, Dave Cross wrote:
> >
> > >--- Original Message ---
> > >From: Dave Yadallee <ro...@nl...>
> > >To: da...@us...
> > >Date: 7/21/02 2:36:41 PM
> > >
> > > Using  your formmail.pl and perl-5.8.0-RC3 I get:
> > >
> > > Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
> > > /var/www/cgi-bin/mf.cgi line 93.
> > > Use of uninitialized value in pattern match (m//) at
> > > /var/www/cgi-bin/mf.cgi line 95.
> > > Invalid [] range "<thorn>=BF=BF=BF=BE-3" in transliteration operato=
r
> > at
> > > /var/www/cgi-bin/mf.cgi line 506.
>
> The uninitialized value in pattern match ones seem to be
> caused by caller(1) failing to return the expected list
> under 5.8.  It only happens if there is another error
> that triggers the error page, which is why it went away
> when Paul fixed the \377 error.  Put the \377 error back
> and you see it again.
>
>   nms_0$ nmstests formmail
>   body_attributes unit tests................ failed
>      Check nodie failed: unexpected STDERR output: Use of uninitialized=
 value in pattern match (m//) at /home/nick/nms/test-results/.tmp/cgi-bin=
/FormMail.pl line 123.
>   Invalid [] range "=FE=BF=BF=BF=BE-3" in transliteration operator at /=
home/nick/nms/test-results/.tmp/cgi-bin/FormMail.pl line 593.
>
> I see nothing in /usr/local/perl-5.008/bin/perldoc -f caller to
> explain the change though.  A workaround is to change
>
>       my ( $pack, $file ) =3D caller(1);
>
> to
>
>       my ( $pack, $file ) =3D caller(1);
>       $file |=3D '';
>
> but I won't do that until we understand the problem a bit better.
>


perlbug it.

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