2011/3/9 Ken Brown: > 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 that Cygwin's Module::Build module is outdated and needs to be updated via 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.
Oh my, Module::Build is my special friend and should die a painful death IMHO. Looks like I need to roll another small update this weekend. -- Reini Urban -- 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
