On 3/11/2011 2:02 PM, Reini Urban wrote: > 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 that Cygwin's Module::Build module is outdated and needs to be updated via 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.
Do you mean updating the version of Module::Build? That just hides the actual problem... -- 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
