RE: ParseLex

["Chase, Andrew" <achase@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Adam,

maybe you've already seen this, but here's an email I sent to the list awhile back about problems I was having with the ParseLex package. I think with test 4 the problem is the test itself, not the ParseLex package.

Cheers,
Andrew

<begin old email>

I had some troubles getting the ParseLex package installed and wanted two point out to little errors I found in the ParseLex-2.15 available from cpan. The package from cpan is assumably the same as what is included in the LAS 6.4.1.0 installation that I'm working from, but went ahead and grabbed the source from CPAN to make sure I wasn't running into problems with the LAS distrobution of the package.

I've found two small errors in the ParseLex-2.15 package that were preventing me from installing it on my Fedora 3 linux machine. I'm assuming that they would affect other platforms as well, but I haven't seen any talk of it. 

In $ParseLexHome/lib/Parse/Template.pm there's two errors. The first is on line 1, 'use strict' is missing a simi colon.
The next is on line 501, the variable $expr needs to be declared as a new variable by adding 'my' in front of it.
broken: $expr = $1;
fixed : my $expr = $1;
For me, that moved the make test from 0% passing to 85.71% passing.
Maybe the older versions of the perl interpreter were ignoring these little errors and the new one doesn't? Who knows.

The other error appears in t/test4.t and it looks like it is being caused by a change in the perl output from whatever version of perl the test was created for to the version I'm running (perl 5.8.5). The details are the same, but the formatting is different.

I read a bit about a patch for ParseLex-2.15 included in LAS, maybe I'm duplicating those efforts?

Cheers,
Andrew

Software Engineer
MBARI

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam Baxter [mailto:Adam.Baxter@noaa.gov]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 7:05 AM
> To: las_users
> Subject: ParseLex
> 
> 
> Hi,
>     I'm working on the NOMADS project and we're trying to 
> install LAS on 
> one of our servers. With the help of a few of the messages on this 
> mailing list, all of the prerequisites for LAS compile and test fine 
> except for ParseLex on test 4. We need to somehow move 
> forward with our 
> installation, however and can't really wait for the next 
> release of LAS. 
> Is something wrong with the test or is it ParseLex itself? 
> Can the test 
> be safely ignored or is there possibly a patch to fix it?
> 
> Adam Baxter
> Intern at NCDC/NEMAC
>