On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 09:30:33PM -0700, chromatic via RT wrote: > On Mon Oct 06 12:15:49 2008, doughera wrote: > > > Trying to compile today's parrot on an up-to-date version > > of OpenSolaris: > > > > SunOS xxx 5.11 snv_98 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris > > > > it failed (after a while) with the following error: > > > > perl tools/build/pmc2c.pl --vtable > > Storable version 2.13 required--this is only version 2.12 at > > /export/home/doughera/src/parrot/parrot- > > cc/tools/build/../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/Pmc2cMain.pm line 6. > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at > > /export/home/doughera/src/parrot/parrot- > > cc/tools/build/../../lib/Parrot/Pmc2c/Pmc2cMain.pm line 6. > > Compilation failed in require at tools/build/pmc2c.pl line 10. > > BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at tools/build/pmc2c.pl line 10. > > make: *** [vtable.dump] Error 2 > > > > The problem is that OpenSolaris ships with (a patched version of) > > perl-5.8.4. I'm not sure why OpenSolaris is still shipping perl- > > 5.8.4, but they are. > > > > I haven't looked at tools/build/pmc2c.pl at all to see why Storable > > 2.13 is required, nor at how large of a burden it would be to relax > > that requirement. Such digging would take more time than I have > > available at the moment. > > If I remember correctly, Storable 2.12 and earlier did not restore > overloading properly. Storable's changelog suggests that version 2.18 > compiles properly on older versions of Perl; if it works with Perl 5.8.4
All versions on CPAN should build back to 5.004, without test failures. That's probably a bit more than you need. :-) > in OpenSolaris, we could keep the dependency on 5.8.1 (or whatever) and > increase the Storable dependency to 2.18. I infer from the quoted message above that bumping the dependency to 2.13 would work as well, but wouldn't cause a lot of other people who have 2.13 to 2.17 installed to need to upgrade. Nicholas Clark