SUMMARY: perl5 on solaris8

Solution:

edit and comment out the first line of the _h2ph_pre.ph script
so that it looks like this:

     #unless (defined &) { sub () { "" } }



Some people suggested that I run h2ph.  It should have been clear that I
already had.
Some said this is a common problem with Perl.  That would be ok, except
this is the
version of Perl that Sun include with Solaris8.  You should expect it to
just work.


Regards,
     -Matt


Original question.

I'm getting an error with the version of perl5 that Sun include in
Solaris8.

The error is:
     Warning: Use of "defined" without parens is ambiguous at /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/_h2ph_pre.ph line 2.
     Can't use subscript on subroutine entry at /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/_h2ph_pre.ph line 2, near "} }"
     (Did you mean $ or @ instead of &?)
     syntax error at /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/_h2ph_pre.ph line 4, near "unless"

As far as I can tell, _h2ph_pre.ph was created at the same time that I had h2ph generate syslog.ph.


Regards,
     -Matt


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