use UNIVERSAL is deprecated in perl 5.22

[dpgeekzero]

I don't know perl very well, but I got mh working again by commenting out line 49 in lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm

Error:

UNIVERSAL does not export anything at ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm line 49.
 at mh line 31.
        main::__ANON__("UNIVERSAL does not export anything at ../lib/site/HTML/Format"...) called at /usr/share/perl5/core_perl/Carp.pm line 166
        Carp::croak("UNIVERSAL does not export anything") called at /usr/share/perl5/core_perl/UNIVERSAL.pm line 15
        UNIVERSAL::import("UNIVERSAL", "can") called at ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm line 49
        HTML::Formatter::BEGIN() called at ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm line 49
        eval {...} called at ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm line 49
        require ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/site/HTML/FormatText.pm line 60
        require HTML/FormatText.pm called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/handy_net_utilities.pl line 29
        handy_net_utilities::BEGIN() called at ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm line 49
        eval {...} called at ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm line 49
        require handy_net_utilities.pl called at mh line 728
        main::setup called at mh line 6852
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm line 49.
 at mh line 31.
        main::__ANON__("UNIVERSAL does not export anything at ../lib/site/HTML/Format"...) called at ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm line 49
        require ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/site/HTML/FormatText.pm line 60
        require HTML/FormatText.pm called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/handy_net_utilities.pl line 29
        handy_net_utilities::BEGIN() called at ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm line 49
        eval {...} called at ../lib/site/HTML/Formatter.pm line 49
        require handy_net_utilities.pl called at mh line 728
        main::setup called at mh line 6852
Compilation failed in require at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/site/HTML/FormatText.pm line 60.
 at mh line 31.
        main::__ANON__("UNIVERSAL does not export anything at ../lib/site/HTML/Format"...) called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/site/HTML/FormatText.pm line 60
        require HTML/FormatText.pm called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/handy_net_utilities.pl line 29
        handy_net_utilities::BEGIN() called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/site/HTML/FormatText.pm line 0
        eval {...} called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/site/HTML/FormatText.pm line 0
        require handy_net_utilities.pl called at mh line 728
        main::setup called at mh line 6852
Compilation failed in require at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/handy_net_utilities.pl line 29.
 at mh line 31.
        main::__ANON__("UNIVERSAL does not export anything at ../lib/site/HTML/Format"...) called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/handy_net_utilities.pl line 29
        handy_net_utilities::BEGIN() called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/handy_net_utilities.pl line 29
        eval {...} called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/handy_net_utilities.pl line 29
        require handy_net_utilities.pl called at mh line 728
        main::setup called at mh line 6852
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/handy_net_utilities.pl line 29.
 at mh line 31.
        main::__ANON__("UNIVERSAL does not export anything at ../lib/site/HTML/Format"...) called at /opt/misterhouse/bin/../lib/handy_net_utilities.pl line 29
        require handy_net_utilities.pl called at mh line 728
        main::setup called at mh line 6852
Compilation failed in require at mh line 728.
 at mh line 31.
        main::__ANON__("UNIVERSAL does not export anything at ../lib/site/HTML/Format"...) called at mh line 728
        main::setup called at mh line 6852
mh rc=255
mh failed on startup ... will not restart

[dpgeekzero]

It looks like the use statement isn't required: http://perldoc.perl.org/UNIVERSAL.html

[hollie]

Hey @dpgeekzero

thank you for the report.

According to me the problem is that the HTML::Formatter module that is delivered with MisterHouse under lib/site is not the most recente one. The most recent version is v2.11).
The version that comes with MisterHouse is 9 years old.

To get around this for the time being you can either patch the file as you did or you could install the HTML::Formatter module with CPAN on your system and remove the version under lib/site.

Perl will search for the module under lib/site first and if it does not find it there, it will search in your Perl library path on your system.

Regards,
Lieven.

[dpgeekzero]

@hollie: Thanks!

[Stormwind99]

More distros have upgraded perl now - I just hit this problem after updating from Fedora 22 to 24.

[keynet]

Me too - in perl 5.26 (Opensuse Leap 15). I removed the version of HTML::Formatter provided by MH.