[ID 20010117.004] &Sys::Syslog::setlogsock broken

This is a bug report for perl from setantae@eidosnet.co.uk,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.


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When calling &Sys::Syslog::setlogsock with the argument 'unix', my program dies with the following error:
Usage: Sys::Syslog::_PATH_LOG() at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux-64all/Sys/Syslog.pm line 277

A test program is included below :

	#!/usr/bin/perl -w
	
	use strict;
	use 5.6.0;
	use Sys::Syslog qw/:DEFAULT setlogsock/;
		
	&setlogsock('unix');	# We die here
	&openlog($0,"pid","local6");
	&syslog("notice","we won't get here");
### end test program

Editing line 277 of /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux-64all/Sys/Syslog.pm as follows fixes the problem :

##############	begin diff
277c277
<         my $syslog = &_PATH_LOG                          || croak "_PATH_LOG not found in syslog.ph";
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>         my $syslog = &_PATH_LOG()                          || croak "_PATH_LOG not found in syslog.ph";
##############	end diff

That's it.  Thanks,

setantae
(Ceri Davies)

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Flags:
    category=library
    severity=low
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Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0:

Configured by root at Thu Sep 21 17:13:13 BST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.16, archname=i686-linux-64all
    uname='linux ignatius 2.2.16 #2 thu sep 21 16:16:19 bst 2000 i686 unknown '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef
    useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define 
    use64bitint=define use64bitall=define uselongdouble=define usesocks=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)
    cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer'
    ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -fomit-frame-pointer -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='long double', nvsize=12, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=/lib/libc-2.1.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.6.0:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux-64all
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux-64all
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.6.0:
    HOME=/home/setantae
    LANG=en_US
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_ALL=en_US
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/setantae/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/setantae/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash2

• [ID 20010117.004] &Sys::Syslog::setlogsock broken by setantae