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 a 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>