On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:43:02AM -1000, Joshua Hoblitt wrote: > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:31:17AM +0100, Peter Sinnott wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:43:41PM -0700, Joshua Hoblitt via RT wrote: > > > Does anyone have an old enough Perl to test if this is still an issue? > > > > Prior to 5.6.0 and 'our' package variables had to be declared with the > 'vars' pragma. See `perldoc vars`. >
It was only a very very half hearted attempt to get it to work. Lacking the revision variable will only become a problem if it gets as far as actually compiling some C code. > > If I run make it fails as it can not find Pod::Usage. > > I can see a few Pod::* modules under lib so I presume > > policy is to add perl module depencies there and not > > to require the user to install them locally. Can someone > > add Pod::Usage under ./lib. > > If you can make a convincing argument that 5.005xx should be supported > that is possible - but why? > I only ran it with 5.005 as that is what the bug contained. I could try saying at least as many people use 5.005 as Irix but I am not even convincing myself with that. > Cheers, > > -J > > -- -- We have committed to authoritatively supply progressive data while continuing to seamlessly provide access to innovative catalysts for change to exceed customer expectations
