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From: Erik Wienhold <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: pgindent fails with perl 5.40
Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 03:50:09 +0200
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>

I wrote:
> I get this error when running pgindent with perl 5.40:
> 
>     Attempt to call undefined import method with arguments ("devnull") via package "File::Spec" (Perhaps you forgot to load the package?) at src/tools/pgindent/pgindent line 10.
>     BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at src/tools/pgindent/pgindent line 10.
> 
> It definitely worked with perl 5.38 before.  Not sure if something's
> wrong on my side.

Ah, it's intentional:
https://metacpan.org/release/HAARG/perl-5.40.0/view/pod/perldelta.pod#Calling-the-import-method-of-a...

> Calling the import method of an unknown package produces a warning
> [...]
> It will also detect cases where a user passes an argument when using a
> package that does not provide its own import
> [...]

Because we use fatal warnings, pgindent fails.

-- 
Erik






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