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Re: got no sys/ioctl.ph ?

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From:
Dave Rolsky
Date:
October 21, 2007 14:44
Subject:
Re: got no sys/ioctl.ph ?
Message ID:
alpine.DEB.0.9999.0710211642480.2064@urth.org
On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Eric Wilhelm wrote:

> I just released Device::SerialPins, which turns the serial port into a
> GPIO with per-pin getters and setters.
>
> I'm puzzled by the flood of failure reports for unix-like systems, which
> include even 5.8.8 on linux (close to being my development box, though
> maybe with a different kernel.)
>
>> #     Error:  Can't locate sys/ioctl.ph in @INC (did you run h2ph?)
>
> I got the "require 'sys/ioctl.ph'" line from the ioctl() section of
> `perldoc perlfunc`.  What's the deal?

These files are created by the h2ph tool. I suspect on some systems the 
default Perl package does not include the generated files.


-dave

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