9 Copyright (c) 2005-2007 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.
20 This module is the base class for all IO::Compress and IO::Uncompress
30 Before you can build IO-Compress-Base you need to have the following
31 installed on your system:
34 * Perl 5.004 or better.
43 Assuming you have met all the prerequisites, the module can now be built
44 using this sequence of commands:
55 To install IO-Compress-Base, run the command below:
80 How to report a problem with IO-Compress-Base.
82 To help me help you, I need all of the following information:
84 1. The Versions of everything relevant.
87 a. The *complete* output from running this
91 Do not edit the output in any way.
92 Note, I want you to run "perl -V" and NOT "perl -v".
94 If your perl does not understand the "-V" option it is too
95 old. This module needs Perl version 5.004 or better.
97 b. The version of IO-Compress-Base you have.
98 If you have successfully installed IO-Compress-Base, this one-liner
101 perl -MIO::Compress::Base -e 'print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Base::VERSION\n]'
103 If you are running windows use this
105 perl -MIO::Compress::Base -e "print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Base::VERSION\n]"
107 If you haven't installed IO-Compress-Base then search IO::Compress::Base.pm
108 for a line like this:
114 2. If you are having problems building IO-Compress-Base, send me a
115 complete log of what happened. Start by unpacking the IO-Compress-Base
116 module into a fresh directory and keep a log of all the steps
118 [edit config.in, if necessary]
121 make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
124 Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org>