Your vendor has not defined SGI::FAM macro new

[Mikko Kortelainen]

Hi,

I have Perl 5.8.1 installed on a Fedora Core 1. I installed module SGI::FAM with:

perl -MCPAN -e'shell'

using the following commands:

install Test::Helper
install SGI::FAM

Everything went ok (at least I did not see any error messages). The problem is that running for example:

perl -e'use SGI::FAM; my $fam = new SGI::FAM;'

returns error message:

"Your vendor has not defined SGI::FAM macro new at -e line 1"

What does this mean? How do I fix this?

-mikko-

[Drieux]

On Feb 5, 2004, at 7:43 AM, [email]mikko.kortelainen@hut.fi[/email] wrote:

Given that Fedora is not Irix, how exactly were
you planning that integration?

> Everything went ok (at least I did not see any error messages). The
> problem is that running for example:
>
> perl -e'use SGI::FAM; my $fam = new SGI::FAM;'

did you try say

perl -MSGI::FAM -e 'my $fam = new SGI::FAM;'

> returns error message:
>
> "Your vendor has not defined SGI::FAM macro new at -e line 1"

<http://search.cpan.org/~jglick/SGI-FAM-1.002/lib/SGI/FAM.pm>

indicates that it is suppose to be aware of it.

while actually reading it
<http://search.cpan.org/src/JGLICK/SGI-FAM-1.002/lib/SGI/FAM.pm>

you will note that

a. there is no 'new' in the perl code,
b. hence it goes into the AutoLoader, but
gets a response back that the 'new' construct is not found
in the underlying XS code.

HTH.

ciao
drieux

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[Mikko Kortelainen]

to, 2004-02-05 kello 20:13, drieux kirjoitti:

> Given that Fedora is not Irix, how exactly were
> you planning that integration?

I don't actually know if it should or not. I've had it working with
redhat 7.3 in the past, and assumed it would work with Fedora, too. I
tried "man fam" and it gives me a page with "Silicon Graphics" as the
author...

> did you try say
>
> perl -MSGI::FAM -e 'my $fam = new SGI::FAM;'

That one gives the same error.

> <http://search.cpan.org/~jglick/SGI-FAM-1.002/lib/SGI/FAM.pm>
>
> indicates that it is suppose to be aware of it.

I also copied the example code from
<http://search.cpan.org/~jglick/SGI-FAM-1.002/lib/SGI/FAM.pm> and tried
executing it from a file, but the result is still the same.

> while actually reading it
> <http://search.cpan.org/src/JGLICK/SGI-FAM-1.002/lib/SGI/FAM.pm>
>
> you will note that
>
> a. there is no 'new' in the perl code,
> b. hence it goes into the AutoLoader, but
> gets a response back that the 'new' construct is not found
> in the underlying XS code.

At line 120 I found "sub new {"... Isn't that supposed to handle it? I
can't really tell, I don't know that much about the inner logic of perl
modules...

-mikko-

[Wiggins D Anconia]

>

> On Feb 5, 2004, at 7:43 AM, [email]mikko.kortelainen@hut.fi[/email] wrote:
>
> Given that Fedora is not Irix, how exactly were
> you planning that integration?
>

Once upon a time SGI::FAM did work on linux, I have seen it. And fam
does still run and is used at least by the gnome project. Having said
that I have seen this error before, and never did solve the problem on
Solaris or the Linux box I saw it on. I have not tried fedora, but
aren't really surprised. I am wondering if this is just a backwards
compatibility breakage wrt newer versions of fam. If I ever get to that
promise land of having enough time to look at such things I was hoping
to figure out what the deal was as fam is a pretty cool thing and having
an interface to it would be nice.

> > Everything went ok (at least I did not see any error messages). The
> > problem is that running for example:
> >
> > perl -e'use SGI::FAM; my $fam = new SGI::FAM;'

>
> did you try say
>
> perl -MSGI::FAM -e 'my $fam = new SGI::FAM;'
>
>

> > returns error message:
> >
> > "Your vendor has not defined SGI::FAM macro new at -e line 1"

>
> <http://search.cpan.org/~jglick/SGI-FAM-1.002/lib/SGI/FAM.pm>
>
> indicates that it is suppose to be aware of it.
>
> while actually reading it
> <http://search.cpan.org/src/JGLICK/SGI-FAM-1.002/lib/SGI/FAM.pm>
>
> you will note that
>
> a. there is no 'new' in the perl code,
> b. hence it goes into the AutoLoader, but
> gets a response back that the 'new' construct is not found
> in the underlying XS code.
>

Having noted that I failed to get it to work, I was able to write a
reasonably similar daemon to fam in Perl using POE (see I can always
make a message fit it somehow). You should check the archives for my
previous posts on the SGI::FAM module (I would suggest using google's
groups search). The actual file watching I didn't try to implement, but
the drop box functionality was fairly easy to develop....

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