Bug #121908 for Device-BCM2835: Can't use GPIO pins higher than #26

> > Fri May 26 11:00:30 2017: Request 121908 was acted upon. > > Transaction: Ticket created by jjd@jjd.com > > > > Queue: Device-BCM2835 > > > > Subject: Can't use GPIO pins higher than #26 > > > > Broken in: (no value) > > > > Severity: (no value) > > > > Owner: Nobody > > > > Requestors: jjd@jjd.com > > > > Status: new > > > > Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121908 > > > > > As you know, modern Raspberry Pis have 40-pin GPIO headers. > > > > The Device::BCM2835 module only allows you to use pins up to pin number > > 26. The underlying C-library that Device::BCM2835 uses has already been > > upgraded to allow use of all 40 pins. > > > > Can the perl module also be modified to allow use of all 40 pins? > > > > Thank you, > > > > --Jim Dempsey--

>> Hi again, >> >> new version 1.10 adds these mssing constants >> >> cheers. >> >> On Friday, 26 May 2017 11:00:30 AM AEST you wrote: >> number >> been

>> Queue: Device-BCM2835 >> Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121908 > >> >> Thanks very much, Mike. >> >> I’m sorry to be a pest, but I can’t seem to use version 1.92 either. >> >> Version 1.91 installed fine (using cpanm) but version 1.92 said: >> >> $ cpanm Device::BCM2835 >> --> Working on Device::BCM2835 >> Fetching >> http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/M/MI/MIKEM/Device-BCM2835-1.92.tar.gz ... OK >> Configuring Device-BCM2835-1.92 ... OK >> Building and testing Device-BCM2835-1.92 ... FAIL >> ! Installing Device::BCM2835 failed. See >> /home/jjd/.cpanm/work/1496430512.1235/build.log for details. Retry with >> --force to force install it. $ >> >> Looking at the log file build.log I see: >> >> Running Mkbootstrap for Device::BCM2835 () >> chmod 644 BCM2835.bs >> PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=1 /usr/bin/perl >> "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-MTest::Harness" "-e" "undef >> *Test::Harness::Switches; test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t >> >> # Failed test 'use Device::BCM2835;' >> # at t/Device-BCM2835.t line 12. >> # Tried to use 'Device::BCM2835'. >> # Error: Perl v5.22.1 required--this is only v5.20.2, stopped at >> /home/jjd/.cpanm/work/1496430512.1235/Device-BCM2835-1.92/blib/lib/Device/B >> CM2835.pm line 3. # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at >> /home/jjd/.cpanm/work/1496430512.1235/Device-BCM2835-1.92/blib/lib/Device/B >> CM2835.pm line 3. # Compilation failed in require at t/Device-BCM2835.t line >> 12. >> # BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at t/Device-BCM2835.t line 12. >> >> # Failed test 'Constants' >> # at t/Device-BCM2835.t line 59. >> Undefined subroutine &Device::BCM2835::set_debug called at >> t/Device-BCM2835.t line 70. # Looks like you planned 5 tests but ran 2. >> # Looks like you failed 2 tests of 2 run. >> # Looks like your test exited with 255 just after 2. >> t/Device-BCM2835.t .. >> Dubious, test returned 255 (wstat 65280, 0xff00) >> Failed 5/5 subtests >> >> Test Summary Report >> ------------------- >> t/Device-BCM2835.t (Wstat: 65280 Tests: 2 Failed: 2) >> Failed tests: 1-2 >> Non-zero exit status: 255 >> Parse errors: Bad plan. You planned 5 tests but ran 2. >> Files=1, Tests=2, 1 wallclock secs ( 0.55 usr 0.05 sys + 0.56 cusr 0.06 >> csys = 1.22 CPU) Result: FAIL >> Failed 1/1 test programs. 2/2 subtests failed. >> Makefile:981: recipe for target 'test_dynamic' failed >> make: *** [test_dynamic] Error 255 >> -> FAIL Installing Device::BCM2835 failed. See >> /home/jjd/.cpanm/work/1496430512.1235/build.log for details. Retry with >> --force to force install it. >> >> Assuming that the test failed due to the perl version, I decided to try >> using —force and installed it that way. However, the result can’t be used: >> >> $ garage.pl -init >> Perl v5.22.1 required--this is only v5.20.2, stopped at >> /usr/local/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/perl/5.20.2/Device/BCM2835.pm line 3. >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at >> /usr/local/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/perl/5.20.2/Device/BCM2835.pm line 3. >> Compilation failed in require at ./garage.pl line 13. >> BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./garage.pl line 13. >> $ >> >> Now normally, I wouldn’t complain if a package required a newer version of >> perl than I had installed, but since the Device::BCM2835 is particularly >> designed to be used on the Raspberry Pi, and the latest version of perl >> that the Raspbian OS includes is v5.20.2, it seems as if no Pi user will be >> able to use this with this restriction. Further, version 1.91 didn’t have >> this requirement and I can only presume that the changes didn’t >> particularly require the newer version of perl. >> >> Now, just to test as much as I could, I tried manually editing >> /usr/local/lib/arm-linux-gnueabihf/perl/5.20.2/Device/BCM2835.pm to change >> the line "use 5.022001;” to read "use 5.020001;”. With this change, I >> could use the new 1.92 library (as I had used previous versions). However, >> I still can’t use the high numbered pins, to wit: >> >> $ ./garage.pl -activate -door 1 >> RPI_V2_GPIO_P1_40 is not a valid Device::BCM2835 macro at ./garage.pl line >> 131. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./garage.pl line 131. >> $ >> >> I tried to look through the BCM2835.pm to understand why this would happen >> but I didn’t see why. Everywhere (say) RPI_V2_GPIO_P1_11 existed in the >> .pm file, there was a case for RPI_V2_GPIO_P1_40 as well. >> >> Perhaps change one of your test programs to use RPI_V2_GPIO_P1_40 and see if >> you can get it to work with v1.92? >> >> Again, sorry to be such a pest. >> >> —Jim Dempsey— >>