What is Tie::StdScalar?

7stud has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm getting this cpan error message:

Tests succeeded but one dependency not OK (Tie::StdScalar)
  DCONWAY/Regexp-MatchContext-0.0.2.tar.gz
  dependencies -- NA
Running Build install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force
Failed during this command:
 DCONWAY/Regexp-MatchContext-0.0.2.tar.gz     : make_test NO one dependency not OK (Tie::StdScalar)

perl 5.10.1

Comment on What is Tie::StdScalar?

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Re: What is Tie::StdScalar? by chromatic (Archbishop) on Apr 12, 2010 at 04:58 UTC
It's part of `Tie::Scalar`; there's no explicit Tie/StdScalar.pm in 5.10 at least. (I don't have an earlier tarball to check.)	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: What is Tie::StdScalar? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 12, 2010 at 05:02 UTC
Looks like there never was StdScalar.pm http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl5.005/lib/Tie/Scalar.pm http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.6.1/lib/Tie/Scalar.pm http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.8.1/lib/Tie/Scalar.pm	[reply]
Re: What is Tie::StdScalar? by Anonymous Monk on Apr 12, 2010 at 04:58 UTC
Tie::Scalar, Tie::StdScalar - base class definitions for tied scalars Basically, Tie::StdScalar isn't a standalone module, its a package defined in Tie::Scalar. dconway often gets these types of details wrong and doesn't fix them for a long time (eg Bug 30046 for Regexp-MatchContext: Wrong dependency on Tie::StdScalar)	[reply]
Re: What is Tie::StdScalar? by 7stud (Deacon) on Apr 12, 2010 at 05:09 UTC
Thanks. I'll make do without Regexp::MatchContext.	[reply]
Re^2: What is Tie::StdScalar? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 12, 2010 at 06:18 UTC
or force install, or create a stub called Tie/StdScalar.pm that loads Tie::Scalar.	[reply]