Date: Sat, 2 Sep 1995 18:09:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Gary Clark II <gclarkii> To: jehamby@lightside.com (Jake Hamby) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sgmlfmt doesn't work under Perl5.001 ! Message-ID: <199509030109.SAA17040@freefall.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950902001653.3093A-100000@localhost> from "Jake Hamby" at Sep 2, 95 00:19:38 am
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> When I tried to run sgmlfmt(1) tonight, after upgrading from the Perl that
> came with FreeBSD (4.036?) to 5.001m, it gives me these errors and then
> quits:
>
> buk: {170} sgmlfmt
> Literal @sect now requires backslash at /usr/bin/sgmlfmt line 208, within
> string
<SNIP>
> /usr/bin/sgmlfmt has too many errors.
>
> Is this a bug in sgmlfmt or just Perl5.001 not being backwards compatible
> with 4.036? At any rate, when I installed perl it made a link from
> /usr/local/bin/perl (where I installed it) to /usr/bin/perl (where the
> old FreeBSD version was). My fault for allowing it to, but now what am
> I supposed to do? Tomorrow I'll have a look at either fixing sgmlfmt to
> work with Perl5 or just rebuilding Perl4.036 from source... Any
> suggestions?
>
Hi,
This is one of the few points that 5.X Perl breaks for 4.X scripts. Just
follow the directions and escape the '@' and it will work. I would
however also re-install 4.036 into /usr/bin..
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jake Hamby | E-Mail: jehamby@lightside.com
> Student, Cal Poly University, Pomona | System Administrator, JPL
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gary
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