Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 08:23:36 +0100 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: Raymond Hicks <rayhicks@UU.NET> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CURRENT breaks some apps Message-ID: <20010109082336.A18603@heechee.tobez.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0101060002420.13271-100000@neserve0.corp.us.uu.net>; from rayhicks@UU.NET on Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:12:24AM -0500 References: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0101060002420.13271-100000@neserve0.corp.us.uu.net>
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On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 12:12:24AM -0500, Raymond Hicks wrote:
> I have had a problem with running infobot after my recent cvsup to
> current. I have heard that there is a problem with the newer perl
> version.. is this a result of that? Here is error:
> deepwoods# Missing braces on \N{} at ./src/Irc.pl line 131, near ">>> $b"
> Missing braces on \N{} at ./src/Irc.pl line 133, near ">>> $b"
> Missing braces on \N{} at ./src/Irc.pl line 152, within string
> Compilation failed in require at ./infobot line 39.
> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./infobot line 42.
>
> and here is perl -v
>
> deepwoods# perl -v
>
> This is perl, v5.6.0 built for i386-freebsd
> (with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
5.6.0 introduced new escape: \N{}, named chars for UTF-8. See man
charnames for details.
If you want to fix Irc.pl yourself, go there and remove unnecessary
backslashes (if one wants `N', why would one use `\N' anyway?).
HTH,
Cheers,
^Anton.
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