Perl syntax errors when run on HP-UX

[Tony Walker]

Dear Forumers,

I'm currently have a play around with Perl and as usual jumping in at the deep end I'm starting with sockets programming. I have a simple little script which works find on my Mandrake 8.2 install but gives me the following error when run on HP.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Tony

"use" may clash with future reserved word at /tmp/talk.pl line 3.
syntax error in file /tmp/talk.pl at line 3, next 2 tokens "use IO"
"use" may clash with future reserved word at /tmp/talk.pl line 4.
syntax error in file /tmp/talk.pl at line 26, next 2 tokens "->"
syntax error in file /tmp/talk.pl at line 28, next 2 tokens "->"
syntax error in file /tmp/talk.pl at line 34, next 2 tokens "}"
syntax error in file /tmp/talk.pl at line 46, next token "}"
Execution of /tmp/talk.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

[Steve Steel · Accepted solution]

Hi

This is a known problem.
Check the version of perl on the system.

#what `which perl`

You should have perl5 installed .There may already be perl5 on your system. Check /opt/perl*/bin directory, if it exists and check the version there. If it is not there, download the perl5 version and also remember to set the /usr/sbin/perl link to point to the new binary.


Steve Steel

[harry d brown jr]

Like Steve said, get a newer version of perl:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Languages/perl-5.6.1/

Your mandrake perl is at least 5.0, if not 5.6.

live free or die
harry

[Tony Walker]

Thanks guys, I now have perl5 and my script runs fine.

Thanks

Tony