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Subject: Re: Perldoc error: "Could not create temp file"
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 19:10:22 -0700 (PDT)
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Robbie Hatley schrieb:
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> I'm curious:  Have any of the others in these two groups had
> problems running perldoc on DJGPP on Win2K?  Or more to the
> point, can anyone here SUCCESSFULLY run DJGPP perldoc on
> Win2K?  I'm wondering if this is a widespread bug, or just
> some fluke of setup of the 2 machines I'm seeing it on.

Perl 5.8.8 compiled with djdev203 runs flawlessly on my Win98SE box
and perl 5.8.8 compiled with djdev204 runs flawlessly on my
WinXP box too.  I can not reproduce the error you are reporting in
any way.
Even if I let point TMPDIR to a non-existing directory, Perl continues
working without any problem.  The rule that Perl uses to create
temporary files is as follows:
1) Evaluate TMPDIR, TMP and TEMP in that order and determinate
if that directory exists *and* is writable.  If not descard the
pointer
and try the next environment variable.
2) If non of them worked the try /tmp.  This means that it assumes
that the current partition has a /tmp directory.  If this is proven
untrue The it defaults to /.  It creats the temporary file in the
root directory of the current partition.
It must be noticed that Perl always checks for existance and
for write rights of the directory before trying to create the
file.

The length of the temporary name has no influence;
you use a LFN system.


> I know that djgpp perldoc USED to work on Win2k.  But after
> a hard-disk crash a few months ago, I recreated my djgpp folder
> with all the lastest stuff, almost certainly newer versions;
> so I'm suspecting this may be a bug in the 5.8.8 version
> of djgpp Perl.
>
> Is anyone here running DJGPP and Perl 5.8.8 on Win2K?  If so,
> please try this:  Run Bash, then at Bash prompt type
> "perldoc perl".  Do you get "invalid argument in perldoc.pm
> line 1483"?  Or does it work fine?
No, it always works on all OS I have tried on different computers.
I am afraid that something is really brocken in your installation.
For some reason the opening of the temporary file is not
possible on your system.

Regards,
Juan M. Guerrero