expectperl-discuss

[Expectperl-discuss] IO-Tty on Alpha

[Stephen <S.J...@du...>]

HI there,

I'm trying to build the IO::Tty Perl module (version 1.02) on an Alpha
machine (OSF1 v4.0) and am hitting some problems. This may be due to the
version of Perl that is installed (which i don't have direct control over)
but i'm not sure so if anyone can point me in the right direction i would
be very grateful. It does the perl Makefile.PL and make stages fine but
fails on make test and does not work when i try to 'use' it. The error
message i get from make test is:

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /usr/local/bin/perl -I./blib/arch -I./blib/lib
-I/freeware/lib/perl5/alpha-dec_osf/5.00401 -I/freeware/lib/perl5 test.pl
1..4
Using /usr/users/nfp/nfp/tmp/IO-Tty-1.02/blib
Can't locate object method "export_to_level" via package
"IO::Tty::Constant" at
/usr/users/nfp/nfp/tmp/IO-Tty-1.02/blib/lib/IO/Tty.pm line 37.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/usr/users/nfp/nfp/tmp/IO-Tty-1.02/blib/lib/IO/Pty.pm line 7.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 19.
*** Exit 2
Stop.

Any enlightenment gratefully received, thanks

Stephen Quinney

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Re: [Expectperl-discuss] IO-Tty on Alpha

[Roland G. <Ro...@Gi...>]

> I'm trying to build the IO::Tty Perl module (version 1.02) on an
> Alpha machine (OSF1 v4.0) and am hitting some problems. This may
> be due to the version of Perl that is installed

It is. 5.004_01 has been around a loong time (5 years). I once made 
sure that IO::Tty also builds and links under 5.004, but I must have 
made non-backward-compatible changes since then (the IO::Tty::Constant 
module creation is rather recent).  Sorry about that, but the way to go 
here is to upgrade to 5.6.1, as 5.004_01 isn't even the latest stable 
of that bunch (5.004_05 is).

Hope this helps,

Roland
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