Re: IO-Tty-1.02 on z/os

On 2006–02–15, at 07:15, mohammad yaseen wrote:

> I'm trying to build IO-Tty-1.02 on z/os using perl-5.8.7, i'm  
> getting this error messages
>
>   Now let's see what we can find out about your system
> (logfiles of failing tests are available in the conf/ dir)...
> FSUM7332 syntax error: got (, expecting Newline

I have not touched big iron in many years, but, poking around on  
Google, that seems to be an error from the ksh command line  
interpreter. My guess is that there's something in the expansion of  
this line from Makefile.pl ...

if (system("$Config{'cc'} $Config{'ccflags'} compilerok.c >  
compilerok.log 2>&1")) {

that z/os' ksh does not like. The tried and tested debug method of  
dropping a print statement into Makefile.pl to display the command  
line ahead of the call to system() may throw some light.
>
>   ERROR: cannot run the configured compiler 'c89'
> (see conf/compilerok.log).

Is there such a file? My guess is that ksh barfed before if could be  
created.

> Please fix this by adjusting
> perls Config.pm, creating a symlink to the right location
> or maybe by just adding it to your PATH.  You could also build
> perl yourself.
>
>   Can anyone suggest how to resolve this problem?

You should take the issue up with the module's maintainer, Roland  
Giersig. I've copied him on this mail.
-- 
Dominic Dunlop