At 20:16 Uhr +0000 17.01.2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
>On Thursday, January 17, 2002, at 01:17  am, Max Horn wrote:
>
>>I guess once the DB really works, we'll want to make storable-pm an 
>>essential package, but at least during bootstrap, we have to go 
>>without it. AFAIK this was the main problem holding back the DB 
>>code, wasn't it, Finlay?
>
>Backslash found where operator expected at 
>/Volumes/os9/DarwinStuff/sandbox/fink-finlayd-
>cache/perlmod/Fink/Package.pm line 384, near "store \"
>         (Do you need to predeclare store?)
>syntax error at /Volumes/os9/DarwinStuff/sandbox/fink-finlayd-
>cache/perlmod/Fink/Package.pm line 384, near "store \"
>Compilation failed in require at 
>/Volumes/os9/DarwinStuff/sandbox/fink-finlayd-
>cache/perlmod/Fink/Engine.pm line 27.
>BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at 
>/Volumes/os9/DarwinStuff/sandbox/fink-finlayd-
>cache/perlmod/Fink/Engine.pm line 27.
>Compilation failed in require at 
>/Volumes/os9/DarwinStuff/sandbox/fink-finlayd-cache/bootstrap.pl 
>line 336.
>
>Related lines:
>   if (eval { require Storable; 1; }) {
>     print "Updating package index... ";
>     store \@package_list, "$basepath/var/db/fink.db";
>     print "done.\n";
>   }

Maybe it would help to outsource the code that uses storable to a 
seperate file, that gets only loaded when Storable is present?


Max
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