9 Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved.
10 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
11 and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
19 DO NOT use in production code.
20 Please report any problems.
26 This module is the base class for all IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress
36 Before you can build IO::Compress::Base you need to have the following
37 installed on your system:
40 * Perl 5.004 or better.
49 Assuming you have met all the prerequisites, the module can now be built
50 using this sequence of commands:
61 To install IO::Compress::Base, run the command below:
86 How to report a problem with IO::Compress::Base.
88 To help me help you, I need all of the following information:
90 1. The Versions of everything relevant.
93 a. The *complete* output from running this
97 Do not edit the output in any way.
98 Note, I want you to run "perl -V" and NOT "perl -v".
100 If your perl does not understand the "-V" option it is too
101 old. This module needs Perl version 5.004 or better.
103 b. The version of IO::Compress::Base you have.
104 If you have successfully installed IO::Compress::Base, this one-liner
107 perl -MIO::Compress::Base -e 'print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Base::VERSION\n]'
109 If you areplete* output from running this
113 Do not edit the output in any way.
114 Note, I want you to run "perl -V" and NOT "perl -v".
116 If your perl does not understand the "-V" option it is too
117 old. This module needs Perl version 5.004 or better.
119 b. The version of IO::Compress::Base you have.
120 If you have successfully installed IO::Compress::Base, this one-liner
123 perl -MIO::Compress::Base -e 'print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Base::VERSION\n]'
125 If you are running windows use this
127 perl -MIO::Compress::Base -e "print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Base::VERSION\n]"
129 If you haven't installed IO::Compress::Base then search IO::Compress::Base.pm
130 for a line like this:
136 2. If you are having problems building IO::Compress::Base, send me a
137 complete log of what happened. Start by unpacking the IO::Compress::Base
138 module into a fresh directory and keep a log of all the steps
140 [edit config.in, if necessary]
143 make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
146 Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org>