Cryptic error when LWP isn't available

[Justin Erenkrantz]

httpd-test gives a really cryptic error message when LWP isn't
installed:

Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
.../Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestHarness.pm line 121.

Be nice if we could fix that. It seems that $_ is trounced by
$self->run_t(). My perl-fu doesn't have an elegant solution other than
saving $_ before run_t() and then restoring it after. After I did that,
I got the 'LWP isn't available' warnings. *light bulb*

Once I installed LWP, the error disappeared for whatever reason.

Does anyone with perl-fu have a real solution? -- justin

[Geoffrey Young]

Post by Justin Erenkrantz
httpd-test gives a really cryptic error message when LWP isn't
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
.../Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestHarness.pm line 121.
Be nice if we could fix that. It seems that $_ is trounced by
$self->run_t(). My perl-fu doesn't have an elegant solution other than
saving $_ before run_t() and then restoring it after. After I did that,
I got the 'LWP isn't available' warnings. *light bulb*
Once I installed LWP, the error disappeared for whatever reason.
Does anyone with perl-fu have a real solution?

I'll figure one out sometime today or tomorrow. thanks for reporting it :)

--Geoff

[Philip M. Gollucci]

Post by Justin Erenkrantz
httpd-test gives a really cryptic error message when LWP isn't
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
.../Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestHarness.pm line 121.
Be nice if we could fix that. It seems that $_ is trounced by
$self->run_t(). My perl-fu doesn't have an elegant solution other than
saving $_ before run_t() and then restoring it after. After I did that,
I got the 'LWP isn't available' warnings. *light bulb*
Once I installed LWP, the error disappeared for whatever reason.
Does anyone with perl-fu have a real solution? -- justin

You my try adding

local $_;

to $self->run_t()
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[Stas Bekman]

Post by Justin Erenkrantz
httpd-test gives a really cryptic error message when LWP isn't
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
.../Apache-Test/lib/Apache/TestHarness.pm line 121.
Be nice if we could fix that. It seems that $_ is trounced by
$self->run_t(). My perl-fu doesn't have an elegant solution other than
saving $_ before run_t() and then restoring it after. After I did that,
I got the 'LWP isn't available' warnings. *light bulb*
Once I installed LWP, the error disappeared for whatever reason.
Does anyone with perl-fu have a real solution? -- justin

I ditched $_, see if it solves the problem.