Okay a few rules:
- No, I cannot install Strawberry Perl on this system. I have to use Cygwin.
- This is Perl 5.8.7. I cannot update it.
- This is not my system. This is a customer's system, and I cannot modify it to my hearts content.
Now, we've gotten that out of the way...
I have installed Spreadsheet::Read, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel, and Spreadsheet::XLSX on this system. This installed a little Perl script called xlscat. We've done this before on a development box and the UAT box. Now this is the production box.
I am getting the following error:
Parser for XLSX is not installed at /usr/bin/xlscat line 185
I've traced this to Spreadsheet::Read. The relevant code is:
my @parsers = (
[ csv => "Text::CSV_XS" ],
[ csv => "Text::CSV_PP" ], # Version 1.05 and up
[ csv => "Text::CSV" ], # Version 1.00 and up
[ ods => "Spreadsheet::ReadSXC" ],
[ sxc => "Spreadsheet::ReadSXC" ],
[ xls => "Spreadsheet::ParseExcel" ],
[ xlsx => "Spreadsheet::XLSX" ],
[ prl => "Spreadsheet::Perl" ],
# Helper modules
[ ios => "IO::Scalar" ],
);
my %can = map { $_->[0] => 0 } @parsers;
for (@parsers) {
my ($flag, $mod) = @$_;
print STDERR qq(DEBUG: Flag = "$flag" Mod = "$mod"\n);
$can{$flag} and next;
eval "require $mod; \$can{\$flag} = '$mod'";
}
print STDERR Dumper(\%can); #DEBUG:
The lines that start contain the string DEBUG: are mine.
A dump of @parsers shows that everything is loaded correctly. The first debug prints out the value of $flag and $mod correctly.
The problem seems to come from the eval statement. From what I can see, it runs require against a module, and then sets the $can{$flag} variable to $mod if the require succeeds. Apparently, require Spreadsheet::XLSX fails. Here's the relevant output from my debug statements:
DEBUG: Flag = "csv" Mod = "Text::CSV_XS"
DEBUG: Flag = "csv" Mod = "Text::CSV_PP"
DEBUG: Flag = "csv" Mod = "Text::CSV"
DEBUG: Flag = "ods" Mod = "Spreadsheet::ReadSXC"
DEBUG: Flag = "sxc" Mod = "Spreadsheet::ReadSXC"
DEBUG: Flag = "xls" Mod = "Spreadsheet::ParseExcel"
DEBUG: Flag = "xlsx" Mod = "Spreadsheet::XLSX"
DEBUG: Flag = "prl" Mod = "Spreadsheet::Perl"
DEBUG: Flag = "ios" Mod = "IO::Scalar"
$VAR1 = {
'csv' => 'Text::CSV_XS',
'sxc' => 0,
'xlsx' => 0,
'xls' => 'Spreadsheet::ParseExcel',
'ios' => 'IO::Scalar',
'prl' => 0,
'ods' => 0
};
Hmmm... Maybe the module isn't installed?
$ perldoc -l Spreadsheet::XLSX
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/Spreadsheet/XLSX.pm
It shows up in perldoc. Let's write a quick test program:
#! /usr/bin/env perl
use Spreadsheet::Read;
use Spreadsheet::XLSX;
print "It works\n";
And...
$ ./test.pl
DEBUG: Flag = "csv" Mod = "Text::CSV_XS"
DEBUG: Flag = "csv" Mod = "Text::CSV_PP"
DEBUG: Flag = "csv" Mod = "Text::CSV"
DEBUG: Flag = "ods" Mod = "Spreadsheet::ReadSXC"
DEBUG: Flag = "sxc" Mod = "Spreadsheet::ReadSXC"
DEBUG: Flag = "xls" Mod = "Spreadsheet::ParseExcel"
DEBUG: Flag = "xlsx" Mod = "Spreadsheet::XLSX"
DEBUG: Flag = "prl" Mod = "Spreadsheet::Perl"
DEBUG: Flag = "ios" Mod = "IO::Scalar"
$VAR1 = {
'csv' => 'Text::CSV_XS',
'sxc' => 0,
'xlsx' => 0,
'xls' => 'Spreadsheet::ParseExcel',
'ios' => 'IO::Scalar',
'prl' => 0,
'ods' => 0
};
It works
I can pick up Spreadsheet::XLSX via the use Spreadsheet::XLSX in my test program, yet the require in Spreadsheet::Read doesn't seem to see it.
Why?
Addendum
What do you get if you print Dumper( \%INC ) ? – friedo 2 mins ago
I actually did one better. I added the following line in the loop:
require $mod if ($mod eq "Spreadsheet::XLSX"); #DEBUG
And that produced the error message:
Can't locate Spreadsheet::XLSX in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8/cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/5.8
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8/cygwin
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .) at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/Spreadsheet/Read.pm line 57.
Compilation failed in require at ./test.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./test.pl line 3.
(NOTE: I reformatted the output, so it wouldn't be 1000+ characters long, and it's easier to see the @INC path).
The module is in /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/Spreadsheet/XLSX.pm.
Oh, take a look at this too:
$ pwd
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/Spreadsheet
$ ls -la
total 152
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 phalder Domain Users 0 Nov 1 21:51 .
drwxrwxrw-+ 11 twinborne Users 0 Nov 1 22:28 ..
drwxr-xr-x+ 3 phalder Domain Users 0 Nov 1 20:48 ParseExcel
-rwxr-xr-x 1 phalder Domain Users 107773 Apr 6 2011 ParseExcel.pm
-rwxrwxrwx 1 phalder Domain Users 29142 Nov 2 12:53 Read.pm
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 phalder Domain Users 0 Nov 1 21:51 XLSX
-rwxr-xr-x 1 phalder Domain Users 8411 May 16 2010 XLSX.pm
$ ls -la XLSX
total 48
drwxr-xr-x+ 2 phalder Domain Users 0 Nov 1 21:51 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 4 phalder Domain Users 0 Nov 1 21:51 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 phalder Domain Users 5487 May 16 2010 Fmt2007.pm
-rwxr-xr-x 1 phalder Domain Users 37046 May 16 2010 Utility2007.pm
The permissions seem okay.
Another Addendum:
When I did a CPAN reinstall, I got this:
Result: PASS
/usr/bin/make test -- OK
Running make install
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ERROR: Can't create '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Spreadsheet/Read'
Do not have write permissions on
'/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin/auto/Spreadsheet/Read'
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
at -e line 1
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/Spreadsheet/Read.pm
Installing /usr/share/man/man3/Spreadsheet.Read.3pm
make: *** [pure_site_install] Error 255
/usr/bin/make install -- NOT OK
Oops! I didn't check the permission of the /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin directory tree.
Did a chmod -R a+rx * on the whole /usr/lib/perl5 directory. We'll see if it works again.
