I've finally figured out that the automatic testing for CPAN is a little less flawed than I thought. Lately I have run into email that I had taken to mean that the necessary module was not installed and dismissed the error reports as nonsense. Only to find out today that I get the same error. After bashing my head for too long, I've reduced it to a small test.

Given: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
# test.pl --
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use DB_File;

my %hash;
my $db_path = './db/';
for  (@INC) {
    if (-d "$_/Chess/PGN/db") {
        $db_path = "$_/Chess/PGN/db/";
        last;
    }
}
my $filename = "${db_path}ECO";
open TEST, "<$filename" or die "Couldn't open $filename:$!";
close TEST;
#-----line 19 follows-----
tie (%hash, "DB_File", $filename)
    or die "Couldn't tie $filename: $!\n";

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I get: 
C:>test
Uncaught exception from user code:
        Couldn't open C:/Perl/site/lib/Chess/PGN/db/ECO: No such file 
+or directory
 at C:\Perl_Dev\Openings for Russ\test.pl line 19

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The file does exist on my box and for that matter if you set $file to 'test.pl', you still get the same failure. This suggests that I'm not using 'tie' correctly---which I'm perfectly willing to believe even though this example code came from the 3rd edition camel and matches code in 21 previously working distributions<sigh!>

So fellow monks, any clues for the clueless?

Update: Added marker for line 19 and changed the die statement for the tie attempt.

--hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

In reply to A problem with tie by hsmyers

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