From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
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Subject: Re: Perl interpreter cannot find 'POSIX'
Date: 5 Apr 2000 14:16:11 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Christopher W Gray wrote:

: > I just installed the GNU distribution for Windows 95.    I have a short
: > perl program which runs okay on Unix (SGI).   The program has the
: > statement:
: > 
: >        require 'POSIX';

: Didn't you mean to say "use POSIX;" instead?

I don't think it matters compileatively (uh! what's the word in English?).

: > I am issuing the command-line:
: > 
: >        perl "c:\My Documents\perl_stuff\abc.pl
: > 
: > The perl interpreter complains with the message:
: > 
: >        Can't locate POSIX in @inc (@inc contains: c:/fsf/lib/perl5
: > c:/fsf/lib/perl5/site cL/fsf/lib/perl5/site .) at c:\My
: > Documents\perl_stuff\abc.perl line 2.

On my Solaris system:
; uname -rs
SunOS 5.6
; perl -e 'require POSIX;'
; perl5 -e 'require POSIX;'
; perl -e 'use POSIX;'
; perl5 -e 'use POSIX;'

No compile errors as you can see.

: > The distribution CD did not install the POSIX extensions to Perl.   I
: > have no idea what to do to get this to install.

: If "use POSIX" doesn't help, I suggest to post this question to some
: Perl-related forum.  I don't think it's a bug in the Perl installation
: provided by the CD, but if it turns out it is CD's fault, please come
: back here and tell the details so we could correct that in future
: releases.

Yes, try comp.lang.perl.moderated or comp.lang.perl.misc.


Right,

							MartinS