165133 - checksetup.pl fails

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Bugzilla :: Installation & Upgrading, defect)

Description

[Michael Frick]

when trying to install 2.16, checksetup.pl fails with the following output:

Checking perl modules ...
Checking for       AppConfig (v1.52)   ok: found v1.52
Checking for       CGI::Carp (any)     ok: found v1.20
Checking for    Data::Dumper (any)     ok: found v2.102
Checking for     Date::Parse (any)     ok: found v2.23
Checking for             DBI (v1.13)   ok: found v1.20
Checking for      DBD::mysql (v1.2209) ok: found v2.0419
Checking for      File::Spec (v0.82)   ok: found v0.82
Checking for        Template (v2.07)   ok: found v2.08
Checking for      Text::Wrap (v2001.0131) ok: found v2001.0131
Checking for       CGI::Carp (any)     ok: found v1.20

The following Perl modules are optional:
Checking for              GD (v1.19)   ok: found v1.41
Checking for     Chart::Base (v0.99)   ok: found v0.99
Checking for     XML::Parser (any)     ok: found v2.31

Checking user setup ...
Content-type: text/html

<H1>Software error:</H1>
<PRE>Undefined subroutine &amp;main::DisplayError called at globals.pl line 1585.
</PRE>
<P>
For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message
and the time and date of the error.

Content-type: text/html

<H1>Software error:</H1>
<PRE>[Wed Aug 28 11:40:57 2002] checksetup.pl: Undefined subroutine
&amp;main::DisplayError called at globals.pl line 1585.
Compilation failed in require at ./checksetup.pl line 625.
</PRE>
<P>
For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message
and the time and date of the error.

[Wed Aug 28 11:40:57 2002] checksetup.pl: [Wed Aug 28 11:40:57 2002]
checksetup.pl: Undefined subroutine &main::DisplayError called at globals.pl
line 1585.
[Wed Aug 28 11:40:57 2002] checksetup.pl: Compilation failed in require at
./checksetup.pl line 625.

Comment 1

[Joel Peshkin]

Attachment: Experimental patch for reporter to try

Please try applying this patch and see if you get a more sensible error
message.  Comment in this bug.

Also, what version of perl are you using?   I suspect that it is something like
5.005 rather than 5.6.1 (which I use)

Comment 2

[Michael Frick]

Problem was missing XS.pm from Template library. After installing this perl
module, everything worked well. But the error message could be more helpfull.

The Perl Version is:

cvs:~ # perl -v

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for i586-linux

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

Marking INVALID, then.

Gerv