[Fwd: Re: [scmbug-users] Scmbug error 79: Package 'Bugzilla' notfoundin inst

[Kristis Makris]

John,

Many thanks for this investigation and the correction supplied. I
applied your fix.

Max, thanks for pointing us to the right direction.

I don't understand why eval ( ) worked on Linux for so long. But it is
what it is.

On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 11:14 -0500, John Coffie wrote:
> Kristis/Max,
> 
> We placed this code:
> eval { require Bugzilla; 1; } || die $@;
> in the Common.pm where the packages are being included. It died, but with no 
> error. We tried a bunch of different things with it, but still no errors 
> were printed.
> 
> We then tried adding the eval line before the if statement in Common.pm:
> 1  eval { require Bugzilla; };
> 2  if ( !eval ( $cmd ) ) {
> 3     return 0, "";
> 4  } else {
> ...
> 
> Everything worked, although I was confused for awhile as to why that would 
> work. I then realized that the line 1 eval uses {} and line 2 uses (). I 
> took out line 1, changed () to {} in line 2 and NO ERROR!
> 
> Fix: change
> if ( !eval ( $cmd ) ) {
> to
> if ( !eval { $cmd } ) {
> 
> It was brought to our attention by another perl colleague that the 'eval {}' 
> handles the argument differently in that when using 'eval ()' the argument 
> is treated as text. So our 'require Bugzilla' argument bombed since it 
> treated it as text. Now, when we use '{}' it tells eval to execute the 
> "require" function and return its result.
> 
> We were able to get this working.
> 
> Question: How can we tell if SCMBUG is working? Are there test cases we can 
> run after installing the  glue etc?
> 
> Thanks for ALL of your help.
> 
> John/Teri
> 
> 
> >From: Kristis Makris <kristis.makris at asu.edu>
> >To: John Coffie <john_coffie at hotmail.com>
> >CC: scmbug-users at lists.mkgnu.net
> >Subject: [Fwd: Re: [scmbug-users] Scmbug error 79: Package 'Bugzilla' 
> >notfoundin installation]
> >Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 14:44:51 -0700
> >
> >Teri, perhaps you can try Max's suggestion ?
> >
> >
> >-------- Forwarded Message --------
> >From: Max Kanat-Alexander <mkanat at bugzilla.org>
> >Reply-To: developers at bugzilla.org
> >To: developers at bugzilla.org
> >Subject: Re: [scmbug-users] Scmbug error 79: Package 'Bugzilla' not
> >foundin installation
> >Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 12:05:46 -0800
> >
> >On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:34:28 -0700 Kristis Makris
> ><kristis.makris at asu.edu> wrote:
> > > We are experiencing a problem with Scmbug when Scmbug attempts to
> > > reuse the Bugzilla 3.0.3 API.
> >
> >	First off, I know I'm being nitpicky, but the "Bugzilla API" is
> >in Bugzilla::WebService. Everything else is just "a bunch of objects
> >and functions we use inside of Bugzilla."
> >
> > > Do you know if there are any issues related to have_vers on Solaris?
> >
> >	No, it should work fine, it's all Perl.
> >
> >	What you want to do is have him try, inside whatever code is
> >failing to load the Bugzilla module:
> >
> >	eval { require Bugzilla; 1; } || die $@;
> >
> >	Which will tell you what the problem is.
> >
> >	-Max
> 
> 
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> 
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