HTML::Tidy and solaris woes

[InfiniteLoop]

Greetings Monks,

 I have been tasked with install HTML::Tidy on SunOS 5.8, running perl 5.6.1. I have the libtidy installed, when I try to compile HTML::Tidy, I get the following errors:

$ make
cp lib/HTML/Tidy/Message.pm blib/lib/HTML/Tidy/Message.pm
cp lib/HTML/Tidy.pm blib/lib/HTML/Tidy.pm
/usr/local/bin/perl /opt/perl/5.6.1/lib/perl/ExtUtils/xsubpp  -typemap
+ /opt/perl/5.6.1/lib/perl/ExtUtils/typemap  Tidy.xs > Tidy.xsc && mv 
+Tidy.xsc Tidy.c
Error: 'const char *' not in typemap in Tidy.xs, line 15
Error: 'const char *' not in typemap in Tidy.xs, line 50
Error: 'const char *' not in typemap in Tidy.xs, line 51
Please specify prototyping behavior for Tidy.xs (see perlxs manual)
make: *** [Tidy.c] Error 1

 I checked the perlxs docs, but to no avail. If other monks have installed HTML::Tidy on Solaris 5.8, please help. Thanks.

[Joost]

You can try adding the typemap entry for const char from the perl 5.8.8 ExtUtils/typemap to your local /opt/perl/5.6.1/lib/perl/ExtUtils/typemap

Add the following line above the INPUT and OUTPUT lines:

const char *        T_PV

[InfiniteLoop]

Thanks joost, modifying typemap worked! Meanwhile, we decided to move to shiny new Linux, just for HTML::Tidy. Thanks.

[Herkum]

Can you upgrade your version of Perl? There might be problems with version 5.6.

Note: I only suggest this as a last resort.

[InfiniteLoop]

I wish I could. Unfortunately this is a legacy system and upgrading perl would involve lot of overhead.
I haven't really looked at other HTML::Tidy like modules. I could switch to those modules, if they are stable and work well on both Solaris & Linux.