Hi Roderich,
Roderich Schupp wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 10:20 AM, Mark Dootson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Isn't the underlying problem, in this particular case, Perl 5.10 regex
>> engine dependency on Tie/Hash/NamedCapture.pm ?
>
> Ouch, missed that one. So Tie/Hash/NamedCapture.pm is something like
> Errno.pm, i.e. require'd by the core whenever needed (in the case of
> Errno.pm that means that the program references $!).
Oh, hell, I missed it, too!
[...]
> I propose to amend require_modules in par.pl with
>
> require Errno;
> eval { require Tie::Hash::NamedCapture };
>
> (the latter only conditionally, because it isn't available before Perl 5.10).
Insofar as I understand par.pl, this should fix it. Curiously, I've been
happily using pp with 5.10 and never had the issue.
Best regards,
Steffen
