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[perl #41572] Subclassing CGI::Pretty dies in ->new

From:
jeremy @ chaos . org . uk
Date:
February 22, 2007 15:24
Subject:
[perl #41572] Subclassing CGI::Pretty dies in ->new
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-18680-1172144479-876.41572-75-0@perl.org
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This is a bug report for perl from jeremy@chaos.org.uk,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.35 running under perl v5.8.7.


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If I create a module Jeremy::CGI that subclasses CGI::Pretty and call
Jeremy::CGI->new then Perl dies with 

Undefined subroutine Jeremy::CGI::delete
 at /data/www-jeremy/cgi-bin/cgi-jeremy line 9

Line 9 is the call to Jeremy::CGI->new .  I have discussed this on
comp.lang.perl.misc (see the thread "Subclassing CGI::Pretty dies
instantly in ->new , bug?") and been advised to report it as a bug.

Here are the files:


>>> Jeremy/CGI.pm 

use strict;
use warnings;

package Jeremy::CGI;
use base 'CGI::Pretty';

1; # success 

<<< / Jeremy/CGI.pm 


>>> CGI script 
#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use lib qw( /home/jeremy/Personal/Geeky/Perl/Lib );
use Jeremy::CGI;

my $query = Jeremy::CGI->new;

print 
    $query->header, 
    $query->start_html("Hi!"),
    $query->p("boink"),
    $query->ul($query->li("foo"),
	       $query->li("bar"),);
    $query->end_html,
    ;

<<< / CGI script 


The problem disappears if I replace "use base 'CGI::Pretty';" with
"use base 'CGI';" or if I replace "my $query = Jeremy::CGI->new;" with
"my $query = CGI::Pretty->new;".

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Flags:
    category=library
    severity=medium
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Site configuration information for perl v5.8.7:

Configured by root at Mon Dec  5 05:39:04 GMT 2005.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 7) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.9, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux knoppix 2.6.9 #2 smp tue oct 19 23:51:10 cest 2004 i686 athlon-4 i386 gnulinux '
    config_args='-ds -e -Dprefix=/usr -Dpager=/bin/less -isR'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2',
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='3.4.3', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.3.4.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.3.4'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.8.7:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.7
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.7
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.8.7:
    HOME=/home/jeremy
    LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_COLLATE=POSIX
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/bin:/home/jeremy/Bin:/data/rubygems/bin:/data/rubygems/gems/bin:/data/godi/data/bin:/data/godi/data/sbin:/home/jeremy/.packages/cent_inn/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/csound/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/doom/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/fltk/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/hades/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/mathematics/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/midi/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/mysql/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/perl/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/personal/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/pluto/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/provers/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/ruby-fltk/Bin:/home/jeremy/.packages/gentzen/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash




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