ledgersmb has stopped working on my Debian system. Substituting "use parent" for "use base" in two modules has 'fixed' the problem.
I believe this is since a recent perl update, but only discovered the problem on restarting Starman after upgrading ledgersmb. The problem is not specific to one version of ledgersmb - I see the same issue with 1.3.26 and 1.3.31. I am running Debian GNU/Linux 8.5 (jessie) with perl 5.20.2 and ledgersmb 1.3.31 I try to start ledgersmb with: # starman --preload-app tools/starman.psgi But I get an error: > Error while loading /srv/ledgersmb-1.4.31/tools/starman.psgi: > Base class package "LedgerSMB::DBObject" is empty. > (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package first, > or make that module available in @INC... [snip] > at LedgerSMB/Setting.pm line 53 http://perldoc.perl.org/perlobj.html says: > ...Much older code also uses the base pragma. > For new code, we recommend that you use the parent pragma to > declare your parents. This pragma will take care of setting @ISA. > It will also load the parent classes and make sure that the > package doesn't inherit from itself. changing "use base" for "use parent" in Setting.pm fixes this error. I then get another error: > Error while loading /srv/ledgersmb-1.4.31/tools/starman.psgi: > Base class package "LedgerSMB::Request" is empty. > (Perhaps you need to 'use' the module which defines that package first, > or make that module available in @INC... [snip] > at LedgerSMB.pm line 182. changing "use base" for "use parent" in LedgerSMB.pm fixes this error. Starman then starts and I can use ledgersmb normally. Frankly I don't understand why "use base" is failing in these two locations and why "use parent" behaves differently. I wonder if this problem is unique to my setup, or it affects others also. For now I'm up and running. I document my steps here in case anybody else encounters a similar problem, but I'd also appreciate any words of wisdom to help me understand what is happening. Many thanks, Nick ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Ledger-smb-devel mailing list Ledger-smb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ledger-smb-devel
