On 3/8/2011 2:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > I'm trying to build biber (http://biblatex-biber.sourceforge.net/) for > Cygwin. It is written in Perl. The documentation says to start by > running `perl Build.PL' in order to make sure that I have all the > required modules. This fails as follows: > > $ perl Build.PL > Operation "bool": no method found, argument in overloaded package > version at /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/Module/Build/Base.pm line 1568. > > Line 1568 of Base.pm is > > return $^V ? $self->perl_version_to_float(sprintf "%vd", $^V) : $]; > > I know practically nothing about Perl, but I was hoping I could still > build biber by following instructions. I would appreciate any hints as > to how to track down the problem. I'm attaching Build.PL as well as > cygcheck output. > > Ken
I had similar bizarre error messages related to $^V, specifically the construct sprintf "%vd", $^V, in my case related to CPAN::Reporter for doing test reports from cpan shell. This is something related to the $^V being a version.pm object, as it is in new perls, but the version class not being available for some reason, hence perl trying to call nonexistant overloaded methods. Reini, what do you think? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
