LeeC79 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I was using Perl 5.8.0 from ActivePerl until just recently. I was told that the business server that my scripts are going to be running on is version 5.004_02. So I uninstalled 5.8 and installed the same version that our business server has. Here's the problem, I tested running a script that worked fine before and it no longer works. First it complained that it couldn't find POSIX.pm, so I copy it from my machine to the server. And now I'm getting this error: 

Can't modify subroutine entry in scalar assignment at C:\Perl\lib/POSI
+X.pm line
3, near ");"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at C:\Perl\lib/POSIX.
+pm line 5. 
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ftp_Invent.pl line 11.

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I simply using the strftime function to get and print the localtime of the server. 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use POSIX qw(strftime);

my $now_string;
$now_string = strftime '%Y%m%d.%H%M%S', localtime;
my $now_string2 = strftime '%Y%m%d%H%M%S', localtime;

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Can anyone explain to me why I'm having this problem? Thanks in advance.

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Re: POSIX.pm and Perl 5.004_02 - Compatible?
by PodMaster (Abbot) on Sep 08, 2003 at 16:25 UTC
    First it complained that it couldn't find POSIX.pm, so I copy it from my machine to the server
    Mistake number 1. POSIX is a XS module (requires a compiler), and you can't do that (you need to install the module proper).

    Also, POSIX has been in the CORE since perl 5.00307 and is in CORE of perl 5.004_02. So whatever kind of perl install you have on the server, it's been botched and/or purposefully cut in size (not to mention that it's fairly old).

    MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
    I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
    ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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      Could you tell me how to install the module proper?
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Re: POSIX.pm and Perl 5.004_02 - Compatible?
by jmcnamara (Monsignor) on Sep 08, 2003 at 16:27 UTC

    There should be a version of POSIX with 5.004. Here is the results from a standard 5.00405 installation: 
        $ perl5.00405 -MPOSIX -le 'print strftime "%Y/%m/%d", localtime'
    2003/09/08

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    And here is the ouput from Module::CoreList's corelist: 
        $ corelist POSIX

    POSIX  was first released with perl 5.00307

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    --
    John.

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      I do not have a version of posix with 5.004_02. When I run that line of code you gave, this is what I get: 
      Can't locate POSIX.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:\Perl\lib\site C:\Perl
+\lib c:\pe
rl\lib c:\perl\lib\site c:\perl\lib\site .).
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

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      Any ideas?
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        It looks that you haven't installed the POSIX module for your perl installation, or the directory where POSIX module is installed is not on your perl module search path. It's a perl installation/system admin issue.
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