Net:FTP module

[mcguinne]

Hi,

I got:

Can't declare undef operator in my at /usr/users/tony/perl/lib/libnet-1.12/lib/site_perl/Net/Cmd.pm line 500, near &quot ="
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/users/tony/perl/lib/libnet-1.12/lib/site_perl/Net/FTP.pm line 20.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/users/tony/perl/ftptest3.pl line 6.

when I tried to use Net::FTP

and the error seems to come from the following
line in Cmd:

my (undef,$len,$offset) = @_;

The perl version I am using is 5.004_04.

Any help greatly appreciated. Could you copy your response to:
tony_mcguinness@amt-sybex.com

Regards,

Tony

 

[wardy66]

I think this is a Perl 5.0 vs Perl 5.6 issue.

I don't have a Perl 5.0 around to test but it seems to work find in 5.6.

The module shouldn't be so naughty unless it does a require 5.6 --- which it doesn't.

Can you go 5.6 without much hassle?

 

[mcguinne]

I notice in both FTP.pm & Cmd.pm that there is a
"require 5.001" statement. That's on of the first
things that I checked.

On this particular machine it would be quite awkward
to go to 5.6 since the perl distribution is tied to
several instances of an application.