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80e5fcd6 2 IO-Compress-Zlib
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9253672d 4 Version 2.015
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9253672d 6 2nd September 2008
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d54256af 8 Copyright (c) 2005-2008 Paul Marquess. All rights reserved.
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9 This program is free software; you can redistribute it
10 and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
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12DESCRIPTION
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cb7abd7f 15This module provides a Perl interface to allow reading and writing of RFC
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161950, 1951, 1952 (i.e. gzip) and zip files/buffers.
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18PREREQUISITES
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80e5fcd6 21Before you can build IO-Compress-Zlib you need to have the following
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22installed on your system:
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24 * Perl 5.004 or better.
25 * Compress::Raw::Zlib
26 * IO::Compress::Base
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28BUILDING THE MODULE
29-------------------
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31Assuming you have met all the prerequisites, the module can now be built
32using this sequence of commands:
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34 perl Makefile.PL
35 make
36 make test
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38INSTALLATION
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80e5fcd6 41To install IO-Compress-Zlib, run the command below:
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43 make install
44
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45TROUBLESHOOTING
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cb7abd7f 48The t/020isize Test Suite
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80e5fcd6 51This test suite checks that IO-Compress-Zlib can cope with gzip files
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52that are larger than 2^32 bytes.
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d54256af 54By default these tests are NOT run when you do a "make test". If you
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55really want to run them, you need to execute "make longtest".
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57Be warned though -- this test suite can take hours to run on a slow box.
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59Also, due to the way the tests are constructed, some architectures will
60run out of memory during this test. This should not be considered a bug
80e5fcd6 61in the IO-Compress-Zlib module.
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63FEEDBACK
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80e5fcd6 66How to report a problem with IO-Compress-Zlib.
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68To help me help you, I need all of the following information:
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70 1. The Versions of everything relevant.
71 This includes:
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73 a. The *complete* output from running this
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75 perl -V
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77 Do not edit the output in any way.
78 Note, I want you to run "perl -V" and NOT "perl -v".
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80 If your perl does not understand the "-V" option it is too
81 old. This module needs Perl version 5.004 or better.
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83 b. The version of IO-Compress-Zlib you have.
84 If you have successfully installed IO-Compress-Zlib, this one-liner
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85 will tell you:
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80e5fcd6 87 perl -MIO::Compress::Gzip -e 'print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Gzip::VERSION\n]'
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89 If you are running windows use this
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80e5fcd6 91 perl -MIO::Compress::Gzip -e "print qq[ver $IO::Compress::Gzip::VERSION\n]"
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80e5fcd6 93 If you haven't installed IO-Compress-Zlib then search IO::Compress::Gzip.pm
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94 for a line like this:
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9253672d 96 $VERSION = "2.015" ;
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98 2. If you are having problems building IO-Compress-Zlib, send me a
99 complete log of what happened. Start by unpacking the IO-Compress-Zlib
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100 module into a fresh directory and keep a log of all the steps
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102 [edit config.in, if necessary]
103 perl Makefile.PL
104 make
105 make test TEST_VERBOSE=1
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25f0751f 107Paul Marquess <pmqs@cpan.org>