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Wednesday April 02, 2003

10:33 PM

Perl 5.005_03 failures

[ #11412 ]

Well, I received another email regarding Net::SCP::Expect, this one relaying a problem with using the glob operator. According to the email, running this script caused Perl 5.005_03 to dump core:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; use Net::SCP::Expect; my $dir = '/home/testdata'; my @ok_files = glob "$dir/*.xml"; print join("\n",@ok_files);

I'm guessing this is an Expect.pm issue. I couldn't duplicate this with Perl 5.8, so I tried installing Perl 5.005_03. Unfortunately I get a bizarre make error after a (apparently) successful configure:

make: *** No rule to make target `<built-in>', needed by `miniperlmain.o'. Stop.

It seems that once upon a time, I used to know what caused this. If I did, I've forgotten now and Google yields precious little.

Any ideas?

Update: rafael pointed me to a patch that worked like a charm - thanks rafael!. So, Perl 5.005_03 is installed. On to the core dump part...

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Known problem probably (Score:2)

by rafael (2125)

I don't identify your particular failure, but the keywords would be makedepend and miniperlmain [google.com]. You're using gcc 3.x, don't you ?
- Re:Known problem probably (Score:2)
  
  by rafael (2125)
  
  Or : you forgot to escape the <...> when pasting your error message.
  Try this patch [develooper.com] against 5.005_03. And build your perl with LC_ALL=C. HTH.
  - Re:Known problem probably (Score:2)
    
    by djberg96 (2603)
    
    Yeah, I forgot to escape the > and <. In any case, I tried the patch and it worked. Thanks!
Back to the original problem (Score:2)

by jdavidb (1361)

Ask your user to just use Expect; and see if it still dumps core. And recognize that it is almost certainly platform specific.

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- Re:Back to the original problem (Score:2)
  
  by djberg96 (2603)
  
  Tried that, but the author claims it only happens with Net::SCP::Expect, and not just Expect. It's on Linux, which is what I have at home. Could it be a libexpect issue? I dunno.
  Well, I'm about ready to give up testing with 5.005_03 anyway. See my next journal entry.
  - Re:Back to the original problem (Score:2)
    
    by jdavidb (1361)
    
    Well, I'm about ready to give up testing with 5.005_03 anyway.
    
    Hear, hear! I'm a little bit calloused, but I'm not interested in providing support for anything other than the latest version, anyway. I know some people are stuck with older versions. The software is free, let someone else make the necessary changes to make it work and submit them or maintain them himself.
    There's something to be said for the OpenSSH release model. The base OpenSSH works only with OpenBSD. The core OpenSSH developers
    
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