'Global symbol "$identifier" requires explicit package' error message

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#121638 (status was 'resolved')

Searchable as RT121638$

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From the.rob.dixon@gmail.com

This is a bug report for perl from the.rob.dixon@​gmail.com,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.16.2.

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I believe it is high time that the error

  Global symbol "$identifier" requires explicit package

be changed to something more appropriate. I assume it dates back
to perl 4, as these days it is extremely rare that the problem is
really a missing package name, and vastly more likely that the
variable simply hasn't been declared.

Worst of all it confounds Perl beginners, who are the most likely
audience to be forgetting to declare a variable, as packages and
fully-qualified identifiers are mid-level Perl.

I suggest something more like the simple

  Variable "$identifier" has not been declared

is superior. I don't think there is any need at all to mention
the fact that the problem could also be fixed by fully-qualifying
the identifier, as it is the poorest solution of all, and those
that want to access a variable from a different package but don't
know how to do it wouldn't really be helped much by the current
message.

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Flags​:
  category=core
  severity=low

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Site configuration information for perl 5.16.2​:

Configured by strawberry-perl at Fri Nov 2 00​:34​:53 2012.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 16 subversion 2) configuration​:

  Platform​:
  osname=MSWin32, osvers=4.0, archname=MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
  uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.16.2.1 #1 Fri Nov 2 00​:33​:54 2012 i386'
  config_args='undef'
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=undef
  useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
  useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
  use64bitint=undef, use64bitall=undef, uselongdouble=undef
  usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='gcc', ccflags =' -s -O2 -DWIN32 -DPERL_TEXTMODE_SCRIPTS
-DPERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT -DPERL_IMPLICIT_SYS -fno-strict-aliasing
-mms-bitfields',
  optimize='-s -O2',
  cppflags='-DWIN32'
  ccversion='', gccversion='4.6.3', gccosandvers=''
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=1234
  d_longlong=undef, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
  ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='long
long', lseeksize=8
  alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='g++', ldflags ='-s -L"C​:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE"
-L"C​:\strawberry\c\lib"'
  libpth=C​:\strawberry\c\lib C​:\strawberry\c\i686-w64-mingw32\lib
  libs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool -lcomdlg32
-ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid -lws2_32
-lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
  perllibs=-lmoldname -lkernel32 -luser32 -lgdi32 -lwinspool
-lcomdlg32 -ladvapi32 -lshell32 -lole32 -loleaut32 -lnetapi32 -luuid
-lws2_32 -lmpr -lwinmm -lversion -lodbc32 -lodbccp32 -lcomctl32
  libc=, so=dll, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl516.a
  gnulibc_version=''
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_win32.xs, dlext=dll, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags=' ', lddlflags='-mdll -s
-L"C​:\strawberry\perl\lib\CORE" -L"C​:\strawberry\c\lib"'

Locally applied patches​:

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@​INC for perl 5.16.2​:
  C​:/strawberry/perl/site/lib/MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
  C​:/strawberry/perl/site/lib
  C​:/strawberry/perl/vendor/lib
  C​:/strawberry/perl/lib
  .

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Environment for perl 5.16.2​:
  HOME (unset)
  LANG (unset)
  LANGUAGE (unset)
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
  LOGDIR (unset)
  PATH=C​:\Program Files (x86)\ImageMagick-6.8.3-Q16;C​:\Program
Files\ImageMagick-6.8.3-Q16;C​:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA
Corporation\PhysX\Common;C​:\Program Files (x86)\PC Connectivity
Solution\;C​:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows
Live;C​:\Program Files
(x86)\PHP\;C​:\Windows\system32;C​:\Windows;C​:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C​:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C​:\Program
Files\jEdit;C​:\usr\local\ppt\bin;C​:\Program Files
(x86)\GnuWin32\bin;C​:\Program Files (x86)\Smart
Projects\IsoBuster;C​:\Program Files (x86)\Oracle\Berkeley DB 11gR2
5.3.15\bin;C​:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd;C​:\Program Files
(x86)\Bazaar;C​:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1;C​:\Program Files
(x86)\Lua\5.1\clibs;C​:\strawberry\c\bin;C​:\strawberry\perl\site\bin;C​:\strawberry\perl\bin;C​:\Program
Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C​:\MediaInfoCLI;C​:\Program Files
(x86)\MKVToolNix;C​:\Program Files (x86)\Subversion\bin;C​:\Program
Files (x86)\Common Files\Ulead Systems\MPEG;C​:\Program Files
(x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C​:\Program Files\Microsoft Network Monitor
3\;C​:\Program Files\Calibre2\;C​:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL
Utilities 1.3.4\;C​:\Program Files (x86)\Common
Files\Acronis\SnapAPI\;C​:\Program Files\WinRAR;C​:\Program Files\Common
Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C​:\Program Files (x86)\Common
Files\Hackety Hack\0.r1529\..;C​:\Program Files (x86)\IDM Computer
Solutions\UltraCompare\;C​:\ffmpeg\bin;C​:\Program Files
(x86)\Serviio\lib;C​:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
10.0\VC\bin\x86_amd64;C​:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio
10.0\VC\bin\amd64;C​:\SWIG;C​:\MinGW\bin;C​:\MinGW\MSYS\1.0\bin;C​:\Python27;C​:\Curl;C​:\pkg-config\bin;C​:\glib\bin;C​:\gettext-runtime\bin;C​:\Program
Files (x86)\IDM Computer
Solutions\UltraEdit\;C​:\LuaRocks\2.0;C​:\Program Files
(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools;C​:\Ruby193\bin;C​:\Ruby193.DevKit\bin;C​:\Program
Files (x86)\Nmap;C​:\MobiPerl
  PERL_BADLANG (unset)
  SHELL (unset)

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From @rjbs

This does not strike me as a bad idea.

--
rjbs

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The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

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From rob.dixon@gmx.com

On 14/04/2014 15​:36, Ricardo SIGNES via RT wrote​:

This does not strike me as a bad idea.

As always with Perl, I think the biggest problem will be with
backward-compatability. In this case with documentation.

Google is now the primary route to an analysis of any error message, and
if a new, better message is written to describe the same problem then it
will confuse people.

Of course, that is not to say that irrelevant messages should be kept in
circulation just to satisfy the majority, but it does need some thought
and discussion.

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From @Smylers

Rob Dixon writes​:

On 14/04/2014 15​:36, Ricardo SIGNES via RT wrote​:

This does not strike me as a bad idea.

I think it's a good idea. When teaching people Perl, I've found that
message to be one of the things that makes the least sense to the
learners.

The current wording basically reads the same as “Error​: -41”, in that
it's merely an opaque identifier used to look up the actual problem (by
Google, or by asking the person trying to teach you Perl).

As always with Perl, I think the biggest problem will be with
backward-compatability. In this case with documentation.

Google is now the primary route to an analysis of any error message,
and if a new, better message is written to describe the same problem
then it will confuse people.

Why? For somebody running an old version of Perl, the current Google
hits for that message will remain.

For somebody running a new version with a changed error message, there
presumably currently isn't any useful information for the new wording,
but that will end up getting written. The perldiag entry for the new
wording could end with a note saying a different message used to be
used.

And if the message achieves its aim in being better, fewer people will
need to Google it anyway.

Smylers
--
http​://twitter.com/Smylers2

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From ambrus@math.bme.hu

If you're fixing old error messages, can you fix a few others too?

1. Remove 'Unquoted string "%s" may clash with future reserved word' ? These days, if perl5porters add a reserved word, it's protected by 'use feature' so it can't clash with a bareword in old code.

2. Improve 'Variable "%s" is not imported' which you get when you use the wrong slot of an existing glob, such as in 'use strict; our $x = [3,1,4]; my $n = $x[0];' ? The error has nothing to do with importing anything. Even the perldiags entry is confusing, because it keeps talking about importing from a module.

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From @ap

* Ricardo SIGNES via RT <perlbug-followup@​perl.org> [2014-04-14 16​:40]​:

This does not strike me as a bad idea.

I think it is in fact an excellent idea. Gabor has mentioned this error
message to me as the number 1 hurdle for beginners, and the top reason
that everyone tends to write 1997-style Perl at first if left to their
own devices​: they forget to declare a variable, get an incomprehensible
error message (which even if they understood it, just tells them how to
treat the variable as a global anyhow), and if they take out the line
with `use strict` the code “works”. For someone just trying to get a few
lines of code to work, working outside of some formal learning context,
guess what that teaches them.

Gabor brought this up before, but the proposal went nowhere. :-(
http​://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/;msgid=d8a74af10709020112o77419172q4cc2f2ff66dca385@​mail.gmail.com

* Rob Dixon <rob.dixon@​gmx.com> [2014-04-15 04​:45]​:

As always with Perl, I think the biggest problem will be with
backward-compatability. In this case with documentation.

I agree that backcompat will be a problem, but I don’t think Google is
the reason. I have the vague feeling that there must be a lot of code
out there that’s matching on the text of this particular message. But
I can imagine myself being surprised at how little there is, too. This
is probably a case where there must be a full-CPAN smoke against the
branch with the change, so there is some *data* on how much will break
before any call can be made on how to proceed.

If this *can* go into 5.22, that would be *excellent*, but I won’t be
expecting that…

When Gabor brought this up, the perma-topic of having more structured
error messages (error numbers, dual-valued $@​, an exception hierarchy,
*something*) inevitably came up. But it’s been a long time and we have
gotten no closer to that in the meantime…

Regards,
--
Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http​://plasmasturm.org/>

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From @khwilliamson

On Tue Apr 15 02​:38​:00 2014, b_jonas wrote​:

If you're fixing old error messages, can you fix a few others too?

1. Remove 'Unquoted string "%s" may clash with future reserved word' ?
These days, if perl5porters add a reserved word, it's protected by
'use feature' so it can't clash with a bareword in old code.

2. Improve 'Variable "%s" is not imported' which you get when you use
the wrong slot of an existing glob, such as in 'use strict; our $x =
[3,1,4]; my $n = $x[0];' ? The error has nothing to do with importing
anything. Even the perldiags entry is confusing, because it keeps
talking about importing from a module.

Could someone suggest better wording?
--
Karl Williamson

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From @ikegami

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1​:26 PM, Karl Williamson via RT <
perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

2. Improve 'Variable "%s" is not imported' which you get when you use
the wrong slot of an existing glob, such as in 'use strict; our $x =
[3,1,4]; my $n = $x[0];' ? The error has nothing to do with importing
anything. Even the perldiags entry is confusing, because it keeps
talking about importing from a module.

Could someone suggest better wording?

Easy! Global symbol "@​x" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.

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From @ikegami

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10​:14 PM, Eric Brine <ikegami@​adaelis.com> wrote​:

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1​:26 PM, Karl Williamson via RT <
perlbug-followup@​perl.org> wrote​:

2. Improve 'Variable "%s" is not imported' which you get when you use
the wrong slot of an existing glob, such as in 'use strict; our $x =
[3,1,4]; my $n = $x[0];' ? The error has nothing to do with importing
anything. Even the perldiags entry is confusing, because it keeps
talking about importing from a module.

Could someone suggest better wording?

Easy! Global symbol "@​x" requires explicit package name at -e line 1.

Well, that is to say, the same as the one received using 'use strict; my $n
= $x[0];'

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From @khwilliamson

I tried a CPAN smoke of changing this message. The high level results are attached as the first file.

If I look at the failures, the ones which have the changed wording in their test output amount to 130 distinct distributions. The second attachment is an example of an expected failure there.

But some of the failures are more like the third attachment. And looking at the smoke output, a lot of things failed because of failed prerequisites. Steffen doesn't understand it. The code is using cpanplus to compile things.

And there is that the output says 2800 distributions are missing from the output; also something I and Steffen don't understand.

So I'm not sure how to proceed. What do you think?

--
Karl Williamson

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From @khwilliamson

From​: khw@​example.com (Karl Williamson)
X-Test-Reporter-Distfile​: LUKEC/mocked-0.09.tar.gz
X-Test-Reporter-Perl​: v5.21.3
Subject​: FAIL mocked-0.09 x86_64-linux-thread-multi 3.13.0-32-generic
Report​: This distribution has been tested as part of the CPAN Testers
project, supporting the Perl programming language. See
http​://wiki.cpantesters.org/ for more information or email
questions to cpan-testers-discuss@​perl.org

--

Dear LUKEC,

This is a computer-generated error report created automatically by
CPANPLUS, version 0.9152. Testers personal comments may appear
at the end of this report.

Thank you for uploading your work to CPAN. However, it appears that
there were some problems testing your distribution.

TEST RESULTS​:

Below is the error stack from stage 'make test'​:

/home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/bin/perl "-Iinc" /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/mocked-0.09/Makefile.PL --config= --installdeps=Test​::Exception,0
PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/bin/perl "-MExtUtils​::Command​::MM" "-MTest​::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test​::Harness​::Switches; test_harness(0, 'inc', 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/mocked.t t/unmocked.t
Subroutine module_filename redefined at lib/Foo/PreLoaded.pm line 10.
t/mocked.t .... ok
t/unmocked.t ..
Dubious, test returned 2 (wstat 512, 0x200)
No subtests run

Test Summary Report

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t/unmocked.t (Wstat​: 512 Tests​: 0 Failed​: 0)
  Non-zero exit status​: 2
  Parse errors​: No plan found in TAP output
Files=2, Tests=14, 0 wallclock secs ( 0.03 usr 0.00 sys + 0.07 cusr 0.01 csys = 0.11 CPU)
Result​: FAIL
Can't locate URI.pm in @​INC (you may need to install the URI module) (@​INC contains​: lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/mocked-0.09/inc /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/mocked-0.09/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/mocked-0.09/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Uplevel-0.24/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Uplevel-0.24/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Exception-0.32/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Exception-0.32/blib/arch /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/site_perl/5.21.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/site_perl/5.21.3 /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/5.21.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/5.21.3 .) at (eval 6) line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/lib/Foo/UsingUnmocked.pm line 14.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 5) line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/unmocked.t line 10.
# Looks like your test exited with 2 before it could output anything.
Failed 1/2 test programs. 0/14 subtests failed.
make​: *** [test_dynamic] Error 2

MISSING PREREQUISITES​:

It was observed that the test suite seem to fail without these modules​:

URI

As such, adding the prerequisite module(s) to 'PREREQ_PM' in your
Makefile.PL should solve this problem. For example​:

WriteMakefile(
  AUTHOR => 'LUKEC (cpanplus-info@​lists.sf.net)',
  ... # other information
  PREREQ_PM => {
  'URI' => '0', # or a minimum working version
  }
);

Thanks! :-)

PREREQUISITES​:

Here is a list of prerequisites you specified and versions we
managed to load​:

  Module Name Have Want
  ExtUtils​::MakeMaker 6.98 0
  Test​::Exception 0.32 0
  Test​::More 1.001003 0.42

Perl module toolchain versions installed​:
  Module Name Have
  CPANPLUS 0.9152
  CPANPLUS​::Dist​::Build 0.78
  Cwd 3.49
  ExtUtils​::CBuilder 0.280216
  ExtUtils​::Command 1.18
  ExtUtils​::Install 1.68
  ExtUtils​::MakeMaker 6.98
  ExtUtils​::Manifest 1.64
  ExtUtils​::ParseXS 3.25
  File​::Spec 3.49
  Module​::Build 0.4206
  Pod​::Parser 1.62
  Pod​::Simple 3.28
  Test​::Harness 3.32
  Test​::More 1.001003
  version 0.9908

******************************** NOTE ********************************
The comments above are created mechanically, possibly without manual
checking by the sender. As there are many people performing automatic
tests on each upload to CPAN, it is likely that you will receive
identical messages about the same problem.

If you believe that the message is mistaken, please reply to the first
one with correction and/or additional informations, and do not take
it personally. We appreciate your patience. :)
**********************************************************************

Additional comments​:

This report was machine-generated by CPANPLUS​::Dist​::YACSmoke 0.90.

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ENVIRONMENT AND OTHER CONTEXT

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Environment variables​:

  AUTOMATED_TESTING = 1
  LANG = en_US.UTF-8
  NONINTERACTIVE_TESTING = 1
  PATH = /home/khw/bin​:/home/khw/perl5/perlbrew/bin​:/home/khw/print/bin​:/bin​:/usr/local/sbin​:/usr/local/bin​:/usr/sbin​:/usr/bin​:/sbin​:/usr/games​:/usr/local/games​:/home/khw/iands/www​:/home/khw/cxoffice/bin
  PERL5LIB = :/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Uplevel-0.24/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Uplevel-0.24/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Exception-0.32/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Exception-0.32/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/mocked-0.09/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/mocked-0.09/blib/arch
  PERL5OPT =
  PERL5_CPANPLUS_BASE = /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59
  PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_RUNNING = 16766
  PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_VERSION = 0.9152
  PERL5_YACSMOKE_BASE = /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59
  PERL_EXTUTILS_AUTOINSTALL = --defaultdeps
  PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT = 1
  PERL_POD_PEDANTIC = 1
  SHELL = /bin/ksh
  TERM = xterm

Perl special variables (and OS-specific diagnostics, for MSWin32)​:

  Perl​: $^X = /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/bin/perl
  UID​: $< = 1000
  EUID​: $> = 1000
  GID​: $( = 1000 4 24 27 30 46 112 124 1000
  EGID​: $) = 1000 4 24 27 30 46 112 124 1000

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Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 21 subversion 3) configuration​:
  Commit id​: 9cb534b0976ca3e9641369f65ad8153e73b586d5
  Platform​:
  osname=linux, osvers=3.13.0-32-generic, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi
  uname='linux khw 3.13.0-32-generic #57-ubuntu smp tue jul 15 03​:51​:08 utc 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux '
  config_args='-des -Dusedevel -Uversiononly -Dusethreads -Dman1dir=none -Dman3dir=none -Dprefix=/home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg'
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
  use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
  usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
  optimize='-O2',
  cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
  ccversion='', gccversion='4.8.2', gccosandvers=''
  intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
  ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
  alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include-fixed /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib
  libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
  perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
  libc=libc-2.19.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  gnulibc_version='2.19'
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
  cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl)​:
  Compile-time options​: HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS
  PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
  PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD
  PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
  PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
  PERL_USE_DEVEL USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT
  USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE
  USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
  USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME USE_PERLIO
  USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Aug 4 2014 12​:13​:34
  %ENV​:
  PERL5LIB="​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Uplevel-0.24/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Uplevel-0.24/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Exception-0.32/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Exception-0.32/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/mocked-0.09/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/mocked-0.09/blib/arch"
  PERL5OPT=""
  PERL5_CPANPLUS_BASE="/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59"
  PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_RUNNING="16766"
  PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_VERSION="0.9152"
  PERL5_YACSMOKE_BASE="/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59"
  PERL_EXTUTILS_AUTOINSTALL="--defaultdeps"
  PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT="1"
  PERL_POD_PEDANTIC="1"
  @​INC​:
  /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Uplevel-0.24/blib/lib
  /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Uplevel-0.24/blib/arch
  /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Exception-0.32/blib/lib
  /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Exception-0.32/blib/arch
  /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/mocked-0.09/blib/lib
  /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/mocked-0.09/blib/arch
  /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/site_perl/5.21.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
  /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/site_perl/5.21.3
  /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/5.21.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi
  /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/5.21.3
  .

[p5pRT]

From @khwilliamson

From​: khw@​example.com (Karl Williamson)
X-Test-Reporter-Distfile​: MONS/uni-perl-0.92.tar.gz
X-Test-Reporter-Perl​: v5.21.3
Subject​: FAIL uni-perl-0.92 x86_64-linux-thread-multi 3.13.0-32-generic
Report​: This distribution has been tested as part of the CPAN Testers
project, supporting the Perl programming language. See
http​://wiki.cpantesters.org/ for more information or email
questions to cpan-testers-discuss@​perl.org

--

Dear Mons Anderson,

This is a computer-generated error report created automatically by
CPANPLUS, version 0.9152. Testers personal comments may appear
at the end of this report.

Thank you for uploading your work to CPAN. However, it appears that
there were some problems testing your distribution.

TEST RESULTS​:

Below is the error stack from stage 'make test'​:

PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/bin/perl "-MExtUtils​::Command​::MM" "-MTest​::Harness" "-e" "undef *Test​::Harness​::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t
t/00-load.t ....... ok
# Testing uni​::perl 0.92, Perl 5.021003, /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/bin/perl

# Failed test 'strict works'
# at t/01-tests.t line 10.
# 'Variable "$zzz" has not been declared at (eval 6) line 1.
# '
# doesn't match '(?^u​:Global symbol "\$zzz" requires explicit package)'
# Looks like you failed 1 test of 11.
t/01-tests.t ......
Dubious, test returned 1 (wstat 256, 0x100)
Failed 1/11 subtests
t/02-carp.t ....... ok
t/03-ru.t ......... ok
# /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/uni-perl-0.92/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/uni-perl-0.92/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/ExtUtils-Depends-0.309/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/ExtUtils-Depends-0.309/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-OP-Check-0.19/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-OP-Check-0.19/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Hide-0.0009/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Hide-0.0009/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Runtime-0.014/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Runtime-0.014/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Try-Tiny-0.22/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Try-Tiny-0.22/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Fatal-0.013/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Fatal-0.013/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Requires-0.08/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Requires-0.08/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Implementation-0.07/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Implementation-0.07/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Exporter-Progressive-0.001011/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Exporter-Progressive-0.001011/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Variable-Magic-0.53/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Variable-Magic-0.53/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-EndOfScope-0.13/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-EndOfScope-0.13/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Name-0.07/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Name-0.07/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Declare-0.006016/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Declare-0.006016/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Lexical-Alias-0.04/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Lexical-Alias-0.04/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/lib-abs-0.93/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/lib-abs-0.93/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-If-0.01/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-If-0.01/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/ExtUtils-Depends-0.309/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/ExtUtils-Depends-0.309/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-OP-Check-0.19/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-OP-Check-0.19/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Hide-0.0009/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Hide-0.0009/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Runtime-0.014/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Runtime-0.014/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Try-Tiny-0.22/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Try-Tiny-0.22/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Fatal-0.013/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Fatal-0.013/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Requires-0.08/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Requires-0.08/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Implementation-0.07/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Implementation-0.07/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Exporter-Progressive-0.001011/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Exporter-Progressive-0.001011/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Variable-Magic-0.53/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Variable-Magic-0.53/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-EndOfScope-0.13/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-EndOfScope-0.13/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Name-0.07/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Name-0.07/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Declare-0.006016/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Declare-0.006016/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Lexical-Alias-0.04/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Lexical-Alias-0.04/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/lib-abs-0.93/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/lib-abs-0.93/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-If-0.01/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-If-0.01/blib/arch /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/uni-perl-0.92/blib/lib /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/uni-perl-0.92/blib/arch /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/site_perl/5.21.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/site_perl/5.21.3 /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/5.21.3/x86_64-linux-thread-multi /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/lib/5.21.3 .
t/04-warns.t ...... ok
# Have no installed, use fallback
t/05-xd.t ......... ok
t/06-dumper.t ..... ok
t/pod-coverage.t .. skipped​: No POD coverage required
t/pod.t ........... skipped​: Test​::Pod 1.22 required for testing POD

Test Summary Report

---

t/01-tests.t (Wstat​: 256 Tests​: 11 Failed​: 1)
  Failed test​: 2
  Non-zero exit status​: 1
Files=9, Tests=114, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.04 usr 0.01 sys + 0.24 cusr 0.06 csys = 0.35 CPU)
Result​: FAIL
Failed 1/9 test programs. 1/114 subtests failed.
make​: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255

PREREQUISITES​:

Here is a list of prerequisites you specified and versions we
managed to load​:

  Module Name Have Want
  ExtUtils​::MakeMaker 6.98 0

Perl module toolchain versions installed​:
  Module Name Have
  CPANPLUS 0.9152
  CPANPLUS​::Dist​::Build 0.78
  Cwd 3.49
  ExtUtils​::CBuilder 0.280216
  ExtUtils​::Command 1.18
  ExtUtils​::Install 1.68
  ExtUtils​::MakeMaker 6.98
  ExtUtils​::Manifest 1.64
  ExtUtils​::ParseXS 3.25
  File​::Spec 3.49
  Module​::Build 0.4206
  Pod​::Parser 1.62
  Pod​::Simple 3.28
  Test​::Harness 3.32
  Test​::More 1.001003
  version 0.9908

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---

ENVIRONMENT AND OTHER CONTEXT

---

Environment variables​:

  AUTOMATED_TESTING = 1
  LANG = en_US.UTF-8
  NONINTERACTIVE_TESTING = 1
  PATH = /home/khw/bin​:/home/khw/perl5/perlbrew/bin​:/home/khw/print/bin​:/bin​:/usr/local/sbin​:/usr/local/bin​:/usr/sbin​:/usr/bin​:/sbin​:/usr/games​:/usr/local/games​:/home/khw/iands/www​:/home/khw/cxoffice/bin
  PERL5LIB = :/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/ExtUtils-Depends-0.309/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/ExtUtils-Depends-0.309/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-OP-Check-0.19/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-OP-Check-0.19/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Hide-0.0009/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Hide-0.0009/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Runtime-0.014/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Runtime-0.014/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Try-Tiny-0.22/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Try-Tiny-0.22/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Fatal-0.013/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Fatal-0.013/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Requires-0.08/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-Requires-0.08/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Implementation-0.07/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Module-Implementation-0.07/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Exporter-Progressive-0.001011/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Exporter-Progressive-0.001011/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Variable-Magic-0.53/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Variable-Magic-0.53/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-EndOfScope-0.13/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/B-Hooks-EndOfScope-0.13/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Name-0.07/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Sub-Name-0.07/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Declare-0.006016/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Devel-Declare-0.006016/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Lexical-Alias-0.04/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Lexical-Alias-0.04/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/lib-abs-0.93/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/lib-abs-0.93/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-If-0.01/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/Test-If-0.01/blib/arch​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/uni-perl-0.92/blib/lib​:/var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59/.cpanplus/5.21.3/build/uni-perl-0.92/blib/arch
  PERL5OPT =
  PERL5_CPANPLUS_BASE = /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59
  PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_RUNNING = 14115
  PERL5_CPANPLUS_IS_VERSION = 0.9152
  PERL5_YACSMOKE_BASE = /var/tmp/qoNfVUnK59
  PERL_EXTUTILS_AUTOINSTALL = --defaultdeps
  PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT = 1
  PERL_POD_PEDANTIC = 1
  SHELL = /bin/ksh
  TERM = xterm

Perl special variables (and OS-specific diagnostics, for MSWin32)​:

  Perl​: $^X = /home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg/bin/perl
  UID​: $< = 1000
  EUID​: $> = 1000
  GID​: $( = 1000 4 24 27 30 46 112 124 1000
  EGID​: $) = 1000 4 24 27 30 46 112 124 1000

---

--

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 21 subversion 3) configuration​:
  Commit id​: 9cb534b0976ca3e9641369f65ad8153e73b586d5
  Platform​:
  osname=linux, osvers=3.13.0-32-generic, archname=x86_64-linux-thread-multi
  uname='linux khw 3.13.0-32-generic #57-ubuntu smp tue jul 15 03​:51​:08 utc 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 gnulinux '
  config_args='-des -Dusedevel -Uversiononly -Dusethreads -Dman1dir=none -Dman3dir=none -Dprefix=/home/khw/perl/cpansmoke_testperls/error_msg/perl-error_msg'
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
  use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
  usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
  optimize='-O2',
  cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -fwrapv -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
  ccversion='', gccversion='4.8.2', gccosandvers=''
  intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
  ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
  alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.8/include-fixed /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /lib/../lib /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib/../lib /lib
  libs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
  perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
  libc=libc-2.19.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  gnulibc_version='2.19'
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
  cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl)​:
  Compile-time options​: HAS_TIMES MULTIPLICITY PERLIO_LAYERS
  PERL_DONT_CREATE_GVSV
  PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD
  PERL_IMPLICIT_CONTEXT PERL_MALLOC_WRAP
  PERL_NEW_COPY_ON_WRITE PERL_PRESERVE_IVUV
  PERL_USE_DEVEL USE_64_BIT_ALL USE_64_BIT_INT
  USE_ITHREADS USE_LARGE_FILES USE_LOCALE
  USE_LOCALE_COLLATE USE_LOCALE_CTYPE
  USE_LOCALE_NUMERIC USE_LOCALE_TIME USE_PERLIO
  USE_PERL_ATOF USE_REENTRANT_API
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Aug 4 2014 12​:13​:34
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[p5pRT]

From @khwilliamson

It appears that RT puts the attachments in the reverse order of what I said in the previous post

[p5pRT]

From @rjbs

* Karl Williamson via RT <perlbug-followup@​perl.org> [2014-08-22T16​:10​:18]

I tried a CPAN smoke of changing this message. The high level results are
attached as the first file.

If I look at the failures, the ones which have the changed wording in their
test output amount to 130 distinct distributions. The second attachment is
an example of an expected failure there.

Sigh. I'm flashing back to when we added a period to Carp's output.

I would like to improve this error message, but I think that if we do it by
only updating the string, we're going to suffer quite a bit.

This is something that could be governed by a pragma, at least until such time
as there is a better way to identify internal errors. Although I am not
thrilled at a proliferation of pragmata for things such as this, I think it may
be better in the long run.

The down side is that now new users will only get the helpful error message if
they have done 'use v5.24', or the like, which is a pretty hefty down side.

Anybody have a great idea?

--
rjbs