Bioperl: Re: Bioperl-guts: WindowsNT bug in Seq.pm

[James Gilbert]

> Derek,
> 
> This suggests to me that you have a version of
> Perl prior to 5.004 on the Windows NT machine.
> 
> Before 5.004 you had to say:
> 
> 	my $i;
> 	foreach $i (@numbers) {
> 
> But now you can say:
> 
> 	foreach my $i (@numbers) {
> 
> I think we should put a test in the distribution
> to trap this.  I'll try and work out how to do
> this.

I've just looked, and we should already trap this.  
We "require 5.004" in Makefile.PL, so "perl
Makefile.PL" should fail on your Windows NT box.

	James

> On Mon, 22 May 2000, Gatherer, D. (Derek) wrote:
> 
> > On Windows NT the following 1-line script
> > 
> > use Bio::Seq;
> > 
> > produces the following error message:
> > 
> > Missing $ on loop variable at C:\Perl\lib/Bio/Tools/CodonTable.pm line 429
> > BEGIN FAILED-- compilation aborted at C:\Perl\lib/Bio/PrimarySeqI.pm line
> > 115
> > BEGIN FAILED-- compilation aborted at C:\Perl\lib/Bio/SeqI.pm line 89
> > BEGIN FAILED-- compilation aborted at C:\Perl\lib/Bio/Seq.pm line 99
> > BEGIN FAILED-- compilation aborted at C:\test.pl line 1
> > 
> > 'test.pl' being the above 1-liner.
> > 
> > This bug does not occur on Windows 98.  I spotted this last week on 06, and
> > retested this week on 06.1.  It's still there.  I haven't tested 06.1 on
> > Windows98 yet, but 06 was working fine.
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