On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 12:30:40PM -0600, Rob Brown wrote: > Okay, I ripped most of the constants stuff out of WriteMakefile. > This should work on perl 5.005, 5.6.0, 5.6.1, 5.7.3, and hopefully > 5.8.0 now. It would be nice to see it using Dyck's MakeMaker 6.00 > or 6.01 as well as Jarkko's version at 6.03. > > > cvs -z3 -q -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot/freeware co >Net-Ping
Your server has problems... alpha:/tmp/jhi ; cvs -z3 -q -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot/freeware co Net-Ping can't create temporary directory /tmp/cvs-serv10281 No space left on device alpha:/tmp/jhi ; df . Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on usr_domain#tmp 1863184 194603 282408 41% /tmp alpha:/tmp/jhi ; > cd Net-Ping > perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make dist > gtar -zxvf Net-Ping-2.20.tar.gz > cd Net-Ping-2.20 > perl Makefile.PL ; make ; make test > > > Please let me know is this helps any better or not. I'm trying > to avoid the "WARNING: constants is not a known parameter" and > "WARNING: constants takes a string/number not a hash reference" > messages in particular. > > Thanks! > > Rob > > On Thu, 20 Jun 2002, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote: > > > > cvs -z3 -q -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/cvsroot/freeware co >Net-Ping > > > cd Net-Ping > > > perl Makefile.PL > > > > From the very latest 5.8.0-to-be (patch #17326, 5.8.0 RC1 was #16966) > > I get this warning from "perl Makefile.PL": > > > > WARNING: constants is not a known parameter. > > > > and sure enough, perldoc MakeMaker does not know of it. > > If you have knowledge of its exact semantics, the maintainer > > of ExtUtils::MakeMaker would sure like to know about this :-) > > (so that it can be documented, and the above sanity check made saner) > > > > This warning is new, coming from ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.03 (which is > > available separately from CPAN, without having to install 5.8.0-to-be) > > The warnings David Dyck is getting from RC1 are of the same origin, > > MakeMaker 6.01 (or 6.00, can't remember off-hand which version RC1 > > had). > > > > I also get: > > > > Warning: the following files are missing from your kit: > > REAMDE > > perl-Net-Ping.spec > > Please inform the author. > > > > > make > > > > Other than the above warnings, "make test" works fine in the said > > 5.8.0 post-RC1 (in Tru64). > > > > > make disttest > > > > > > My original request to Mr Dyck has been attached below > > > for your reference. LET ME KNOW IF THIS WORKS OR NOT. > > > > > -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack Cohen
