On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:12:24AM -0500, Raymond Hicks wrote:
> I have had a problem with running infobot after my recent cvsup to
> current.  I have heard that there is a problem with the newer perl
> version.. is this a result of that?  Here is error:
> deepwoods# Missing braces on \N{} at ./src/Irc.pl line 131, near ">>> $b"
> Missing braces on \N{} at ./src/Irc.pl line 133, near ">>> $b"
> Missing braces on \N{} at ./src/Irc.pl line 152, within string
> Compilation failed in require at ./infobot line 39.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./infobot line 42.
>  
> and here is perl -v 
> 
> deepwoods# perl -v
> 
> This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i386-freebsd
> (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)

5.6.0 introduced new escape: \N{}, named chars for UTF-8.  See man
charnames for details.

If you want to fix Irc.pl yourself, go there and remove unnecessary
backslashes (if one wants `N', why would one use `\N' anyway?).

HTH,
Cheers,
^Anton.
-- 
May the tuna salad be with you.


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