POSIX.pm and Perl 5.004_02

LeeC79 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I was using Perl 5.8.0 from ActivePerl until just recently. I was told that the business server that my scripts are going to be running on is version 5.004_02. So I uninstalled 5.8 and installed the same version that our business server has. Here's the problem, I tested running a script that worked fine before and it no longer works. First it complained that it couldn't find POSIX.pm, so I copy it from my machine to the server. And now I'm getting this error:


Can't modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at C:\Perl\lib/POSI
+X.pm line
3, near ");"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at C:\Perl\lib/POSIX.
+pm line 5. 
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ftp_Invent.pl line 11.
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I simply using the strftime function to get and print the localtime of the server.


#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use POSIX qw(strftime);

my $now_string;
$now_string = strftime '%Y%m%d.%H%M%S', localtime;
my $now_string2 = strftime '%Y%m%d%H%M%S', localtime;
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Can anyone explain to me why I'm having this problem? Thanks in advance.

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Re: POSIX.pm and Perl 5.004_02 - Compatible?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Sep 08, 2003 at 16:25 UTC

First it complained that it couldn't find POSIX.pm, so I copy it from my machine to the server

Also, POSIX has been in the CORE since perl 5.00307 and is in CORE of perl 5.004_02. So whatever kind of perl install you have on the server, it's been botched and/or purposefully cut in size (not to mention that it's fairly old).

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
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Re: Re: POSIX.pm and Perl 5.004_02 - Compatible?

by LeeC79 (Acolyte) on Sep 08, 2003 at 17:05 UTC

Could you tell me how to install the module proper?

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Re: Re: Re: POSIX.pm and Perl 5.004_02 - Compatible?

by PodMaster (Abbot) on Sep 08, 2003 at 21:47 UTC

perldoc perltoc |grep -i install
File STDIN:
            ExtUtils::Install, ExtUtils::Installed, ExtUtils::Liblist,
  perlmodinstall - Installing CPAN Modules
            module (sometimes unnecessary), INSTALL the module
        How do I install a module from CPAN?

Tutorials

A Guide to Installing Modules

Now, POSIX does not come as a CPAN distribution per se (it's CORE), but it's still in the right format -> http://search.cpan.org/src/TIMB/perl5.004_02/ext/POSIX/

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Re: POSIX.pm and Perl 5.004_02 - Compatible?
by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Sep 08, 2003 at 16:27 UTC

    $ perl5.00405 -MPOSIX -le 'print strftime "%Y/%m/%d", localtime'
    2003/09/08
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Module::CoreList

corelist

    $ corelist POSIX

    POSIX  was first released with perl 5.00307
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--
John.

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Re: Re: POSIX.pm and Perl 5.004_02 - Compatible?

by LeeC79 (Acolyte) on Sep 08, 2003 at 18:02 UTC

Can't locate POSIX.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:\Perl\lib\site C:\Perl
+\lib c:\pe
rl\lib c:\perl\lib\site c:\perl\lib\site .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
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Re: Re: Re: POSIX.pm and Perl 5.004_02 - Compatible?

by Roger (Parson) on Sep 09, 2003 at 01:14 UTC

It looks that you haven't installed the POSIX module for your perl installation, or the directory where POSIX module is installed is not on your perl module search path. It's a perl installation/system admin issue.

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