OK :) full output of perl -wle:
strict version 9999 required--this is only version 1.03 at -e line 1. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1. full output of perl -V is attached (I hope the mailing list will be OK with that) Karel On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 10:03 AM, Michael G Schwern<schw...@pobox.com> wrote: > running wrote: >> It is quite possible. I have the perl that came pre-installed with >> OSX, that is: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) >> >> I have found the "hard-code" fix with my problem - in the file >> "prereq.t", instead of >> >> sprintf("Warning: prerequisite strict 99999 not found. We have %s.\n", >> strict->VERSION); >> >> that originally was there, and generates: >> Warning: prerequisite strict 99999 not found. We have 1.030. >> >> I wrote directly >> >> sprintf("Warning: prerequisite strict 99999 not found. We have 1.03.\n"); >> >> The zero at the end seem to be the problem. > > *headdesk* > > The purpose of a test is to check if the program is working as expected. If > you just change the test to match what happened then the test is pointless. > What you did is like trying to put out a fire by turning off the smoke alarm. > > The test failure indicates there is a small problem with your perl. Its very > minor. perl is for some reason sticking an extra 0 on version numbers. It > should not be doing that and I'd like to figure out why. > > Once again, please run this program and send in the output: > > perl -wle 'use strict 9999;' > > and please send me the FULL OUTPUT of "perl -V". That's capital V. > > Then we can figure out what's gone wrong. > > > -- > There will be snacks. >
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 8) configuration: Platform: osname=darwin, osvers=9.0, archname=darwin-thread-multi-2level uname='darwin b02.apple.com 9.0 darwin kernel version 9.3.0: tue aug 12 17:18:07 pdt 2008; root:xnu-1228.5.90~13release_i386 i386 ' config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dccflags=-g -pipe -Dldflags= -Dman3ext=3pm -Duseithreads -Duseshrplib' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=undef useithreads=define usemultiplicity=define useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-arch ppc -arch i386 -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include', optimize='-O3', cppflags='-no-cpp-precomp -arch ppc -g -pipe -fno-common -DPERL_DARWIN -no-cpp-precomp -fno-strict-aliasing -Wdeclaration-after-statement -I/usr/local/include' ccversion='', gccversion='4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build 5465)', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc -mmacosx-version-min=10.5.7', ldflags ='-arch ppc -arch i386 -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib libs=-ldbm -ldl -lm -lutil -lc perllibs=-ldl -lm -lutil -lc libc=/usr/lib/libc.dylib, so=dylib, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.dylib gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=bundle, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' ' cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-arch ppc -arch i386 -bundle -undefined dynamic_lookup -L/usr/local/lib' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: MULTIPLICITY PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_PERLIO USE_REENTRANT_API Locally applied patches: fix for regcomp CVE-2007-5116 security vulnerability fix for double-free CVE-2008-1927 security vulnerability /Library/Perl/Updates/<version> comes before system perl directories installprivlib and installarchlib points to the Updates directory Built under darwin Compiled at Mar 11 2009 16:09:08 %ENV: PERL5LIB="/tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5:/tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level:/tectomt/libs/core:/tectomt/libs/blocks:/tectomt/libs/other:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/fslib:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/pml-base:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/backends:" PERLLIB="/tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5:/tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level:/tectomt/libs/core:/tectomt/libs/blocks:/tectomt/libs/other:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/fslib:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/pml-base:/tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/backends:" @INC: /tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level /tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5 /tectomt/share/installed_libs/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level /tectomt/libs/core /tectomt/libs/blocks /tectomt/libs/other /tectomt/share/tred/tredlib /tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/fslib /tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/pml-base /tectomt/share/tred/tredlib/libs/backends /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/Updates/5.8.8 /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Library/Perl /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6 /Library/Perl/5.8.1 .