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

Dear Monks,

I met a problem when using modules FILE::PATH.

I try the code in perldoc as follow 

 #!/bin/perl 
use strict; 
use warnings; 
use File::Path qw(make_path remove_tree);

make_path("E:\\Project\\Training Project\\Learning Perl\\modules\\FILE
+\\Temp\\temp1");

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Error occurred when compile

"make_path" is not exported by the File::Path module

"remove_tree" is not exported by the File::Path module

My OS is windows and the Perl is ActivePerl5.10

Could you help me? thanks!

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Re: FILE::PATH question
by zwon (Abbot) on Jan 05, 2010 at 10:53 UTC

    Perhaps you're using the wrong File::Path. What is the output of the following: 

    use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Path;
use Data::Dumper;
warn File::Path->VERSION;
warn Dumper \%INC;

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    Update: note that make_path and remove_tree are available only since File::Path version 2.07

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      From File::Path VERSION 2.08, the SYNOPSIS section: 

            # legacy (interface promoted before v2.00)
      mkpath('/foo/bar/baz');
      mkpath('/foo/bar/baz', 1, 0711);
      mkpath(['/foo/bar/baz', 'blurfl/quux'], 1, 0711);
      rmtree('foo/bar/baz', 1, 1);
      rmtree(['foo/bar/baz', 'blurfl/quux'], 1, 1);

      # legacy (interface promoted before v2.06)
      mkpath('foo/bar/baz', '/zug/zwang', { verbose => 1, mode => 0711
+ });
      rmtree('foo/bar/baz', '/zug/zwang', { verbose => 1, mode => 0711
+ });

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Re: FILE::PATH question
by Ratazong (Monsignor) on Jan 05, 2010 at 10:17 UTC

    You might want to try

    use File::Path qw(mkpath rmtree);

    At least that are the names exported by Path.pm on my system...

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Re: FILE::PATH question
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jan 05, 2010 at 19:51 UTC
    You want 
    use File::Path 2.07 qw( make_path remove_tree );
make_path("...");

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    or 
    use File::Path qw( mkpath rmtree );
mkpath("...");

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    The first will provide a better error message if the desired module is not available. 

    $ perl -e'use File::Path 2.07 qw( make_path remove_tree );'
File::Path version 2.07 required--this is only version 2.04 at -e line
+ 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.

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    The second is backwards compatible.

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Re: FILE::PATH question
by erbin (Novice) on Jan 06, 2010 at 02:57 UTC

    Thank you all,

    My File:Path version is 2.04

    So I come to the "mkpath" and "rmtree" prototype.

    My further question is how to update the module?

    I try the perl package manager, but it doesn't update the FILE::PATH

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      I ran into this problem too, a script I had written using File::Path suddenly stopped working. The problem turned out to be the glibc libraries had been updated since I had installed the Perl package so I need to re-compile and install the package.
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        I ran into this problem too, a script I had written using File::Path suddenly stopped working. The problem turned out to be the glibc libraries had been updated since I had installed the Perl package so I need to re-compile and install the package.

        File::Path is a pure-perl module, so it shouldn't depend on anything gcc :)

        But I too have run into trouble using mingw gcc 4.5.2 toolchain on win32, i can't launch the perl debugger :)

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