Chavez12 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey Monks! I recently built PAR(0.65) on my Solaris system and everything went fine. However, when I run "pp" I get the following: 
develop-escanaba (1) pp
Bareword "desiredCompressionMethod" not allowed while "strict subs" in
+ use at /usr/local/bin/pp line 103.
Bareword "desiredCompressionLevel" not allowed while "strict subs" in 
+use at /usr/local/bin/pp line 103.
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at /usr/local/bin/pp 
+line 226.

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Any suggestions? Is this a bug in the "pp" script?

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Re: PAR bug?
by Enlil (Parson) on Mar 18, 2003 at 18:48 UTC
    Put quotes around desiredCompressionMethod and desiredCompressionLevel and strict should stop complaining.

    update:Sorry was trying to fix different strict complaint above. Change desiredCompressionMethod to desiredCompressionMethod() and desiredCompressionLevel to desiredCompressionMethod()

    update2 Perchance I should take better look at the script in question before I write something blindly. I looked at the source for pp and the lines in question are 

    my %zip_args = (
    desiredCompressionMethod
        => Archive::Zip::COMPRESSION_DEFLATED(),
    desiredCompressionLevel
        => Archive::Zip::COMPRESSION_LEVEL_BEST_COMPRESSION(),
    );

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    so putting the () after them won't help as they aren't supposed to call a sub but are rather the keys to a hash. And thus, I don't know how to help your problem, as strict should not complain about it (and did not when I ran a shortened version here). Sorry for a misleading I might have done.

    -enlil

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