here is something that occurred to me, but it is untested, and could be
plain foolish.
place a file named warnings.pm in your 5_00405 include path that contains the
infamous:
1;
this may help to quiet StatInc.
Chris Strom wrote:
> No, I don't have warnings.pm. It is only included in 5.6. We have no plans
> on upgrading at this time. The code snippet from PerlRun is a workaround
> for perl versions prior to the most recent release, but it appears to be
> causing problems with StatInc.
>
> perl -V reports:
> Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 4 subversion 5) configuration:
>
> It may be that the combination of PerlRun/StatInc/perl<5.6 simply will not
> work. If we were not using StatInc or were using perl 5.6, I do not believe
> that we would be having these problems. Unfortunately, our development
> environment would be rather painful without StatInc and, as I said, we have
> no plans on upgrading from 5_00405.
>
> For now, I've got the following hack in perl.conf:
>
> PerlModule Apache::StatINC
>
> #
> # hack to keep $INC{'warnings.pm'} defined. PerlRun includes a
> # workaround for perl<5.6 which defines $INC{'warnings.pm'} and
> # ties the warnings::unimport function to an anonymous sub-routine.
> #
> PerlInitHandler "sub {delete $INC{'warnings.pm'};
> $INC{'warnings.pm'='/usr/local/lib/perl/site_perl/Apache/PerlRun.pm';}"
>
> PerlInitHandler Apache::StatINC
> PerlSetVar StatINC_UndefOnReload On
> PerlSetVar StatINC_Debug 1
> PerlWarn On
>
> PerlTaintCheck On
>
> It's not the prettiest thing, but it does what's needed.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: G.W. Haywood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 3:00 PM
> To: Chris Strom
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: PerlRun StatInc perl5_00405
>
> Hi there,
>
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, Chris Strom wrote:
>
> > The offending item in %INC appears to be the 'warnings.pm' entry
> > defined on line 308 of PerlRun:
> >
> > BEGIN {
> > if ($] < 5.006) {
> > $INC{'warnings.pm'} = __FILE__;
> > *warnings::unimport = sub {};
> > }
> > }
>
> Do you even have the file 'warnings.pm' if you're using 5.004_05?
> I have it in a 5.6.0 inststallation, but not in 5.005_03. That's
> why there's a test for Perl version less than 5.006 (== 5.6.0).
>
> What does Perl -V say?
>
> 73,
> Ged..
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