I've discovered three problems with installperl as it ships with
5.6.0. I don't have a patch yet because I don't have the whole
shebang working yet.
1). The Config variable 'version' is documented in Config.pm but it
does not exist in my build. This was from a -des configure; do we
have a problem in configure.com or is the pod in Config.pm out of
date? Either way we're hosed when installperl tries to use it.
$ perl -e "use Config; print $Config{version};"
$ perl -e "use Config; print $Config{pm_apiversion};"
5_6_0
2). The Config variable 'arch' is neither documented nor exists, but
it is used in a VMS-specific bit of installperl. Using 'archname'
instead seems to work fine.
$ perl -e "use Config; print $Config{arch};"
$ perl -e "use Config; print $Config{archname};"
VMS_AXP
3). After hacking around the previous two problems, I'm stuck on a
stupid array problem which causes the list of core files to be merely
a list of 1's. Here's a greatly reduced but equivalent example:
$ type array_test.pl
@a1 = ('XXXa','XXXb', 'XXXc');
@array = map { s|^XXX||i } @a1;
print "@array\n";
$ perl array_test.pl
1 1 1
I would expect to get 'a b c' rather than '1 1 1' as the output. The
block in a map is supposed to be interpreted in array context, so it
should not be setting $_ to the number of substitutions, which would
be one guess for what's happening. If anyone knows what's going on
I'd like to know both for my own education and so I can get
installperl working.
thanks,
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Craig A. Berry
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