Problems installing libwww-per-l5b5 : possible bug
Martin Wilck 0341 235 2862 (martin@kassandra.tropos.de)
Thu, 8 Aug 1996 22:59:01 +0200
Hello,
I've just tried to install libwww-perl-5b5 on a Sparc 20 running Solaris 2.5.
My Perl version is 5.003, I installed it just before and it completed all
tests successfully.
My VERSION file says
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Font::AFM 1.07
HTML::Element 1.18
HTML::Entities 1.01
HTML::Parse 1.11
HTTP::Date 1.10
LWP 0.05
LWP::Socket 1.15
MIME::Base64 1.03
MIME::QuotedPrint 1.04
Mail::Cap 1.03
URI::URL 3.05
---
I encountered 2 problems:
1. Perl would dump core at make VERSION, I had to remove that line from
the Makefile. The coredump (Bus Error) happens when the script exits after
printing "5b5" (strangely enough). Well, this is probably a Perl problem.
2. The libwww self test failed for local/get.t - getstore() didn't write the
target file. I recovered by changing the following line in LWP/Protocol.pm,
subroutine collect:
before:
elsif (! defined ref($arg)) {
after:
elsif (! ref($arg)) {
Sorry if this is a well-known problem already. I won't subscribe to the
mailing list, since I already have a hard time reading through my mails.
Thanks and best regards,
Martin
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Martin Wilck
Inst. for Tropospheric Research (IfT)
Permoserstr. 15
D-04303 Leipzig
Tel. +341-235-2151
Fax: +341-235-2361
e-mail: martin@tropos.de
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