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Posted by Nick Wedd on October 11, 2007, 3:49 pm
Please log in for more thread options >Nick Wedd wrote:
>> I am trying to develop a script to run on a web server. It uses the
>> modules
>> GD to do stuff with images
>> CGI to get the parameters from the URI
>> LWP to fetch stuff from the web
>> If my program begins
>> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>> use strict;
>> use GD;
>> use GD::Text;
>> use CGI qw(:standard);
>> use LWP::Simple;
>> I get the error message
>> Prototype mismatch: sub main::head: none vs ($) at s4pngu.pl line 6
>> and if I change the order of the last two lines quoted above,
>> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>> use strict;
>> use GD;
>> use GD::Text;
>> use LWP::Simple;
>> use CGI qw(:standard);
>> I get the error message
>> Prototype mismatch: sub main::head ($) vs none at
>> /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/CGI.pm line 305.
>> Removing the GD lines does not change this.
>> My guess is that the LWP and CGI modules are incompatible somehow.
>>Am I
>> right?
>
>Well, there seems to be a conflicting symbol 'head' that is imported by
>both LWP::Simple and CGI. Since you are using CGI only to get the CGI
>parameters, one way to solve the problem is to exchange
>
> use CGI qw(:standard);
>
>for
>
> use CGI qw(:cgi);
>
Many thanks - that works.
Nick
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Nick Wedd nick@maproom.co.uk
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