OK, based on your info I went and got Storable 2.04 to see if that would
install.
It requires Test::More. I got the latest Test::More and when I tried to
install that
it told me now I need to get Test::Simple. Great.
I grabbed the latest Test::Simple (version 0.47) and that built fine (after
installing
its prerequisite Test::Harness) but the test failed very strangely:
perl5_6_1 "-I[.blib.arch]" "-I[.blib.lib]" "" "" -e "use
Test::Harness qw
(&runtests $verbose); $verbose=0; runtests @ARGV;"
t/*.t
Semicolon seems to be missing at line 1.
Semicolon seems to be missing at line 2.
.... Where it hangs.
This really doesn't seem to be going well.
Forrest Cahoon
not speaking for merrill corporation
"Craig A.
Berry" To: "Forrest Cahoon"
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<craigberry@ma cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
c.com> Subject: Re: Problem building
Storable-2.06 under VMS perl 5.6.1
01/20/2003
07:35 PM
At 4:23 PM -0600 1/20/03, Forrest Cahoon wrote:
>Hey, everyone.
Welcome back. Haven't seen you here since you announced VMS::Logical.
>I'm using perl 5.6.1 from the kit which is distributed by Compaq along
with
>their CSWS webserver.
>
>I just tried to install the latest Storable.pm I found on CPAN (v. 2.06),
>and I get the following XS compile error:
FWIW, Storable 2.04 is included in the core build of Perl as of 5.8.0
and it builds and tests fine.
>CC/DECC /Include=[]/Standard=Relaxed_ANSI/Prefix=All/Obj
>=.obj/NoList/NOANSI_ALIA
>S/Define=("VERSION=""2.06""","XS_VERSION=""2.06""")/
>Include=(perl_root:[lib.VMS_AXP.5_6_1.CORE])/Optimize STORABLE.c
>
> WRITE(header, length);
>....^
>%CC-W-NOTCONSTQUAL, In this statement, the referenced type of the pointer
>value
>"header" is const, but the referenced type of the ta
>rget of this assignment is not.
>at line number 3369 in file SCRATCH:[FCAHOON.STORABLE-2_06]STORABLE.XS;1
You may need to look at what the WRITE macro is doing. There's a
good chance that a simple cast of "header" would be all you need,
something like:
WRITE( (char *) header, length);
assuming it *is* char and not some other type.
>I searched the vmsperl mail archives for "Storable" and found some reports
>of errors on the tests, but I never made it that far.
Once upon a time there was a nasty bug where our custom fwrite()
replacement in [.vms]vms.c would not handle null bytes sprinkled in
the middle of a string. That caused Storable to fail whenever it was
storing binary data. We fixed this at some point, but I can't
remember if it was before or after 5.6.1. If you search the archives
for "storable" and "fwrite" you'll probably find the discussion and the
patch.
>Obviously, not
>everyone (no one?) else has suffered from this build problem.
I haven't tried to build the latest. I think the Storable author
just needs to be reminded that some compilers care about type
qualifiers.
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