Re: How to find ioctl.ph - is my version of perl busted?


Quoth Mark Seger <Mark.Seger@xxxxxx>:
According to perlpaq8, I should be able to "require sys/ioctl.ph" but
when I run my script I get:

Can't locate features.ph in @INC (did you run h2ph?)...

I sure hope I don't have to run h2ph because I'd rather simply know if
ioctl.ph is loadable or not. I'm running on a fairly old system with
perl 5.8.0 and am wondering is this is correct behavior or if my
installation might have gotten corrupted over the years. I can't find
'features' anywhere under the perl tree.

h2ph is not much used any more; a lot of distributions of perl don't
bother installing the .ph files. IIRC h2ph chokes on some of the weirder
stuff in the glibc headers: maybe that's your problem here?

As a rule it's better nowadays to create a proper XS module that uses
the C compiler to #include the headers rather than trying to convert
them into Perl. If this is just a quick-n-dirty job you may find
Inline::C useful.

Ben

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