Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Benjamin Franksen <[email protected]> · Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:08:43 +0200

On Wednesday 18 June 2008 20:07, John Dobbins wrote:
> I am trying to build R3.14.9 base on solaris-sparc. I quickly run into
> the error below in convertRelease.pl. Any ideas?
>
> [...]
>
> perl version is 5.005_03, EPICS_HOST_ARCH=solaris-sparc
>
> [...]
>
> perl ../../configure/tools/convertRelease.pl -h solaris-sparc
> CONFIG_APP_INCLUDE
> Global symbol "$opt_a" requires explicit package name at
> ../../configure/tools/c
> onvertRelease.pl line 28.
> [...]

Line 28 of onvertRelease.pl says:

  our ($opt_a, $opt_h, $opt_t, $opt_T);

Your Perl 5.005_03 version is too old, it doesn't know about 'our' 
declaration. According to http://perldoc.perl.org/perl56delta.html 'our' 
was added in perl-5.6. We should fix documentation/README.1st which says 
that Perl 5.0 or greater is required.

Cheers
Ben
-- 
"Programming = Mathematics + Murphy's Law" (E.W.Dijkstra)

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System