Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 13:43:51 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-15?B?Q+lkcmlj?= Devillers <cedric.devillers@script.jussieu.fr> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Secure NFS (sNFS) on 4-Stable: has somebody succeeded? Message-ID: <20040513134351.68bf9414.cedric.devillers@script.jussieu.fr> In-Reply-To: <40A1DCFA.1020506@users.sourceforge.net> References: <40A0C03B.5080906@users.sourceforge.net> <20040511183921.GA33494@xor.obsecurity.org> <40A17E44.7040900@users.sourceforge.net> <20040512093625.599d2e86.cedric.devillers@script.jussieu.fr> <40A1DCFA.1020506@users.sourceforge.net>
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On Wed, 12 May 2004 17:14:50 +0900
Rob <stopspam@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Thanks a lot, I then can explore further (but please bear in mind that I
> am a total dummy with perl).
>
> Perl comes with the FreeBSD-4-Stable base system as:
> 10 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 10168 May 11 20:39 /usr/bin/perl
> 10 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 10168 May 11 20:39 /usr/bin/perl5
> 10 -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 10168 May 11 20:39 /usr/bin/perl5.00503
>
>
> Exactly same sizes!! Exactly same file?
>
> When I do:
>
> $ perl -e 'print "@INC\n";'
I don't know.
> I get no output at all. Why?
>
> When I do:
>
> $ perl5 -e 'print "@INC\n";'
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-freebsd
> /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005
> .
> /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/mach
> /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503
> $
I have the same result but with the command perl too.
> The last line is the directory where I have: ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
> So I suppose the perl path is okay.
>
> Let me then go back to the secure NFS package, cd into problem directory
> and type:
>
> $ perl5 Makefile.PL
> Checking if your kit is complete...
> Looks good
> Could not eval '
> package ExtUtils::MakeMaker::_version;
> no strict;
>
> local $VERSION;
> $VERSION=undef; do {
> our $VERSION = '1.54';
> }; $VERSION
> ' in SNFS.pm: Can't modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at
> (eval 6) line 7, at EOF$
>
>
> SNFS.pm is a long file (script?) of 1680 lines. It says in the top few lines:
>
> package SNFS;
>
> use 5.006;
> use strict;
> use warnings;
>
> require Exporter;
> use AutoLoader qw(AUTOLOAD);
>
> our @ISA = qw(Exporter);
>
> [...zip...]
>
>
> Why this is not working?
On Wed, 12 May 2004 17:23:09 +0100
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:
> Yup. 'our' is a new keyword introduced in perl 5.6.x -- your version
> of perl is too old to run this software. Your best bet is to install
> a more recent version of perl from the ports (perl-5.8.2 recommended).
you can test to compile the package by replacing the occurences of "our" by "my"
and by looking the result. Attention, no guarantee that that functions !!!
> Is the difference between perl versions 5.005 and 5.006 so essential?
> Comparing these version numbers, this looks more like a small bug fix to me.
> However, if the difference is so important, then why are we still hanging on
> to 5.005 in the FreeBSD base system, without 'upgrading' that to 5.006 or
> whatever?
I did not look at yet which are these differences. Sorry.
> Thanks so much!
Good luck !
> Rob.
Cedric
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