On 3/8/2011 8:42 PM, Rafael Kitover wrote:
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 solved: I asked for help on the biblatex-biber forum and was
told that Cygwin's Module::Build module is outdated and needs to be
updated via
perl -MCPAN -e "install Module::Build"
This worked.
Ken
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