[Arsperl-users] Errors compiling/testing ARSPerl 1.93

[Samuel B. <rec...@gm...>]

Howdy,

I've been having a spot of trouble getting the latest arsperl release
to compile (and then test successfully) on RHEL 6.

I have the AR 6.3 API installed in /usr/ar/api, and I set $ARSAPI =
"/usr/ar/api" and $ARSVERSION = 6.3.

Firstly, running `perl Makefile.PL' complained thusly:

Can't modify numeric lt (<) in scalar assignment at Makefile.PL line
75, near """;"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at Makefile.PL line 894.

This is because the Makefile.PL in 1.93 has lines like this:

<<<<<<< Makefile.PL
#                  5.0 6.0 6.01 6.3 7.0 7.1 7.5
=======
#                  5.0 6.0 6.01 6.3 7.0 7.1 7.5 7.6
>>>>>>> 1.88

So I removed the diff vomit (it's only in three places) and managed to
get the makefile working. After this, though, disaster strikes in the
form of "warning: value computed is not used" errors:

support.c:509: warning: value computed is not used

This happens hundreds of times for the ARS.xs, support.c, and
supportrev_generated.c files. I've attached the entire output of `make
&> make-output'. Whereas it does compile successfully, make test fails
most of the tests. I've attached the output of `make test &>
make-test-output'.

When I install anyways and try to use ARS.pm, I end up getting core
dumps, so I'm pretty sure something is majorly wrong. I haven't been
able to find any info about this anywhere in the archives, so I
figured it was worth mailing the list.

I have pretty identical errors with 1.91, which is what we're using in
production on other machines here.

Thanks,
-- 
Sam Baldwin