Adam Spiers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Christian Lemburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >
> > From: "Adam Spiers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Christian Lemburg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > > > Good. What do I need to check out to make the self tests work?
> > > > I checked it out with 'cvs update -d -r pdc_coderef_inner_class',
> > > > and make_test fails on two tests.
> > ...
> > > Isn't this the same base.pm problem I posted about a few days ago? If
> > > you're running Perl < 5.6, try putting the attached base.pm at the top
> > > of @INC.
> >
> > Yup, that solved it. Thanks.
> >
> > Hm, we will have to think about this - a lot of people run on 5.005_03,
> > since this is the last release of perl that really runs really stable, and
> > it still comes prepackaged with a lot of distributions.
>
> Nasty, isn't it? Possible workarounds:
>
> 1. Document it
> 2. Get `make install' to check for the brokenness and warn
> 3. Add `use Foo;' before every `use base qw(Foo);'
> 4. Provide a patch
>
> 3. is the easiest but somehow I don't like it.
5. Don't use base at all, do:
use vars qw/@ISA/;
use Foo ();
@ISA = 'Foo';
After all, it's worked for ages. Ugly though.
Or, in Makefile.PL:
use ExtUtils::MakeMaker;
# See lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm for details of how to influence
# the contents of the Makefile that is written.
my $PREREQ_PM;
unless (eval "require 5.6.0") {
$PREREQ_PM = {Class::Fields => 0};
}
else {
$PREREQ_PM = {base => 0};
}
WriteMakefile(
'NAME' => 'Test::Unit',
'VERSION_FROM' => 'lib/Test/Unit.pm', # finds $VERSION
'PREREQ_PM' => $PREREQ_PM,
);
Admittedly, this assumes that the 'base' in Class::Fields on CPAN has
the bugfix, which someone (without perl 5.6.0) needs to check.
--
Piers
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