Tip on pilot manager software problem I am having

[lvirden@xxxxxxx (Larry W. Virden)]

The following is a msg that I received when requesting help on the
ptk mailing list for the error I reported seeing here a week or so ago...
Note that I checked the versions of individual conduits and made sure
that I downloaded and installed the newer versions of the Installer, etc.
and tested these and continue to get the same error.  I thought I would
pass this msg along since it _seems_ to portend an increasing number of
reports of this error as others upgrade to newer versions of perl.

Forwarded mail follows:
>From pvhp@xxxxxxxxx  Thu Oct 29 13:36:05 1998
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 98 10:35:50 PST
>From: pvhp@xxxxxxxxx (Peter Prymmer)
Message-Id: <9810291835.AA13853@xxxxxxxxx>
To: lvirden, ptk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Status of next perl tk release?
content-length: 2250
Status: RO


Larry W. Virden wrote:

> I am trying to get the pilot manager application to work on my Solaris
> 2.6 system, running against Tk 8.  There appears to be some 'problems',
> but not really understanding either the application or perl/tk that
> well, I'm having a difficult time trying to figure out what to do
> to get things to work.
> 
> Here is the symptom I am seeing.  Within pilotmgr ( a perl tk gui used
> to invoke stand alone shell commands that interact with a Palm Pilot) I
> select a File->Installer->Configure menu selection.  That results in a small
> box that opens up a file selection like box.  When I press the add button,
> to select via a separate file selection dialog the files I wish to
> install, I see, on stderr of the application, the messages:
> 
> Tk::Error: Cannot opendir('') :No such file or directory
>  Tk::MultiFileSelect::reread at /ldatae/Pilot/pilotmgr/pilotmgr/lib/perl5/MultiFileSelect.pm line 491
>  Tk::BackTrace at /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris/Tk.pm line 96
>  Tk::MultiFileSelect::reread at /ldatae/Pilot/pilotmgr/pilotmgr/lib/perl5/MultiFileSelect.pm line 491
>  Idle Callback
> 
> Then, trying to select a file results in the message 
> internal error: glob failed at /ldatae/Pilot/pilotmgr/pilotmgr/Installer.pm line 239, <_GEN_7> chunk 1.

Internal glob errors may be due to propogation of csh globbing exit status 
values.  This "feature" is new to (I think 5.005 and higher) perl.  There are 
several ways around it including modifying the at least the $full_csh 
configuration variable in the build of perl (it goes into config.sh hence 
config.h) to point to tcsh rather than 'csh' (of course before doing that be 
sure you have a good working tcsh on your machine).

There is a plan to replace csh spawning to do globbing internal to perl 
at some time in the (hopefully not too distant) future.

Peter Prymmer

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