Patching SGI::FAM

[insaniac]

Hey fellow monkies,

I've sent a patch to SGI::FAM, but! I should have posted my problem overhere first (i think).
I wanted to try the example in SGI::FAM, but I got an error saying:

Your vendor has not defined SGI::FAM macro FAM_DEBUG_OFF at test.pl li
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So I did some locate's and grep's and this way I found that FAM_DEBUG_OFF is also in [your_cpan_location]/auto/SGI/FAM/new.al. But, this code tries to call it as a sub, while I think it's a constant (a scalar one i think). Does anybody else think that?

Also, since the code (SGI::FAM) was written for Irix, I can't really test if my tweak (deleting the ( and ) after FAM_DEBUG_OFF in auto/SGI/FAM/new.al).

Good thing is: the example now works on a Linux machine ;-) Pretty cool actually...

I'm using debian linux with gamin library

Thanks a lot!,
just another monkie

[insaniac]

So ehm, I can conclude that what I did was correct?
Also, I see the last changes to this module were made in september 1997.. do you think the author is still *actively* involved with this module? I was just wondering if it makes sense to bother him with my emails and my patch, or just keep the patch to myself..

Thanks for frontpaging this message!
Cheers,
Johnny