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Maintainer(s)' notes

If you are reporting a bug in Spreadsheet::ParseExcel here are some pointers

1) State the issues as clearly and as concisely as possible. A simple program or Excel test file (see below) will often explain the issue better than a lot of text.

2) Provide information on your system, version of perl and module versions. The following program will generate everything that is required. Put this information in your bug report. 

    #!/usr/bin/perl -w

    print "\n    Perl version   : $]";
    print "\n    OS name        : $^O";
    print "\n    Module versions: (not all are required)\n";

    my @modules = qw(
                      Spreadsheet::ParseExcel
                      Scalar::Util
                      Unicode::Map
                      Spreadsheet::WriteExcel
                      Parse::RecDescent
                      File::Temp
                      OLE::Storage_Lite
                      IO::Stringy
                    );

    for my $module (@modules) {
        my $version;
        eval "require $module";

        if (not $@) {
            $version = $module->VERSION;
            $version = '(unknown)' if not defined $version;
        }
        else {
            $version = '(not installed)';
        }

        printf "%21s%-24s\t%s\n", "", $module, $version;
    }

    __END__

3) Upgrade to the latest version of Spreadsheet::ParseExcel (or at least test on a system with an upgraded version). The issue you are reporting may already have been fixed.

4) Create a small example program that demonstrates your problem. The program should be as small as possible. A few lines of codes are worth tens of lines of text when trying to describe a bug.

5) Supply an Excel file that demonstrates the problem. This is very important. If the file is big, or contains confidential information, try to reduce it down to the smallest Excel file that represents the issue. If you don't wish to post a file here then send it to me directly: jmcnamara@cpan.org

6) Say if the test file was created by Excel, OpenOffice, Gnumeric or something else. Say which version of that application you used.

7) If you are submitting a patch you should check with the maintainer whether the issue has already been patched or if a fix is in the works. Patches should be accompanied by test cases.

Asking a question

If you would like to ask a more general question there is the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel Google Group.

Report information
The Basics
Id: 47745
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: Spreadsheet-ParseExcel
People
Owner: Nobody in particular
Requestors: anujhere [...] gmail.com
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  Thu Jul 09 09:44:29 2009 anujhere [...] gmail.com - Ticket created
Subject: make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test_dynamic' for Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.49
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 06:44:03 -0700
To: bug-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Anuj Singh <anujhere [...] gmail.com>
Hi, Could you please look into following propblem and suggest? - Distribution Version: Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.49 - Perl Version: Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 8 subversion 4) configuration: Platform: osname=solaris, osvers=2.10, archname=sun4-solaris-64int uname='sunos localhost 5.10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2' config_args='' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=define d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define usesocks=undef use64bitint=define use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef Compiler: cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -xarch=v8 -D_TS_ERRNO', optimize='-xO3 -xspace -xildoff', cppflags='' ccversion='Sun WorkShop', gccversion='', gccosandvers='' intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8, byteorder=87654321 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16 ivtype='long long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=8, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags ='' libpth=/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib libs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc perllibs=-lsocket -lnsl -ldl -lm -lc libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=true, libperl=libperl.so gnulibc_version='' Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-R /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int/CORE' cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G' Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): Compile-time options: USE_64_BIT_INT USE_LARGE_FILES Locally applied patches: 22667 The optree builder was looping when constructing the ops ... 22715 Upgrade to FileCache 1.04 22733 Missing copyright in the README. 22746 fix a coredump caused by rv2gv not fully converting a PV ... 22755 Fix 29149 - another UTF8 cache bug hit by substr. 22774 [perl #28938] split could leave an array without ... 22775 [perl #29127] scalar delete of empty slice returned garbage 22776 [perl #28986] perl -e "open m" crashes Perl 22777 add test for change #22776 ("open m" crashes Perl) 22778 add test for change #22746 ([perl #29102] Crash on assign ... 22781 [perl #29340] Bizarre copy of ARRAY make sure a pad op's ... 22796 [perl #29346] Double warning for int(undef) and abs(undef) ... 22818 BOM-marked and (BOMless) UTF-16 scripts not working 22823 [perl #29581] glob() misses a lot of matches 22827 Smoke [5.9.2] 22818 FAIL(F) MSWin32 WinXP/.Net SP1 (x86/1 cpu) 22830 [perl #29637] Thread creation time is hypersensitive 22831 improve hashing algorithm for ptr tables in perl_clone: ... 22839 [perl #29790] Optimization busted: '@a = "b", sort @a' ... 22850 [PATCH] 'perl -v' fails if local_patches contains code snippets 22852 TEST needs to ignore SCM files 22886 Pod::Find should ignore SCM files and dirs 22888 Remove redundant %SIG assignments from FileCache 23006 [perl #30509] use encoding and "eq" cause memory leak 23074 Segfault using HTML::Entities 23106 Numeric comparison operators mustn't compare addresses of ... 23320 [perl #30066] Memory leak in nested shared data structures ... 23321 [perl #31459] Bug in read() 27722 perlio.c breaks on Solaris/gcc when > 256 FDs are available SPRINTF0 - fixes for sprintf formatting issues - CVE-2005-3962 6663288 Upgrade to CGI.pm 3.33 REGEXP0 - fix for UTF-8 recoding in regexps - CVE-2007-5116 Built under solaris Compiled at Jul 31 2008 12:07:52 @INC: /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/5.8.4/lib /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/site_perl/5.8.4 /usr/perl5/site_perl /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4/sun4-solaris-64int /usr/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.4 /usr/perl5/vendor_perl . - Operating System: SunOS sun063 5.10 Generic_138888-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,SPARC-Enterprise - make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /bin/perl "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0, 'blib/lib', 'blib/arch')" t/*.t t/00_basic.....................ok 4/8 skipped: various reasons t/01_parse.....................ok 32/37Out of memory! # Looks like you planned 37 tests but only ran 32. t/01_parse.....................dubious Test returned status 5 (wstat 1280, 0x500) DIED. FAILED tests 33-37 Failed 5/37 tests, 86.49% okay t/02_parse-dates...............ok t/03_pod.......................skipped all skipped: Test::Pod 1.00 required for testing POD t/20_number_format_default.....ok t/21_number_format_user........ok t/22_number_format_datetime....ok t/23_number_format_time........ok Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- t/01_parse.t 5 1280 37 10 27.03% 33-37 1 test and 4 subtests skipped. Failed 1/8 test scripts, 87.50% okay. 5/473 subtests failed, 98.94% okay. *** Error code 29 make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test_dynamic' Thanks & Regards Anuj Singh
  Thu Aug 20 06:06:45 2009 jmcnamara [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Thu Jul 09 09:44:29 2009, anuj wrote: Show quoted text
> Could you please look into following propblem and suggest?
Hi, I tested 'make test' on very similar setup and it passed all tests (excepted skipped tests). Do you have OLE::Store_Lite installed? Try the following to check: perl -le 'eval "require $ARGV[0]" and print $ARGV[0]->VERSION' OLE::Storage_Lite If not can you try install it and test again. John. --
  Thu Aug 20 06:06:46 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Thu Aug 20 10:04:30 2009 anujhere [...] gmail.com - Correspondence added
Subject: Re: [rt.cpan.org #47745] make: Fatal error: Command failed for target `test_dynamic' for Spreadsheet-ParseExcel-0.49
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 19:34:11 +0530
To: bug-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel [...] rt.cpan.org
From: Anuj Singh <anujhere [...] gmail.com>
Thanks John, I think I have completed that task, I will try what you said if I am in same setup again. Thanks & Regards, Anuj On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:36 PM, John McNamara via RT < bug-Spreadsheet-ParseExcel@rt.cpan.org> wrote: Show quoted text
> <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=47745 > > > On Thu Jul 09 09:44:29 2009, anuj wrote:
> > Could you please look into following propblem and suggest?
> > Hi, > > I tested 'make test' on very similar setup and it passed all tests > (excepted skipped tests). > > Do you have OLE::Store_Lite installed? Try the following to check: > > perl -le 'eval "require $ARGV[0]" and print $ARGV[0]->VERSION' > OLE::Storage_Lite > > If not can you try install it and test again. > > John. > -- > >
  Fri Aug 21 11:41:25 2009 jmcnamara [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Hi, Okay. I'll close the issue in that case. If you have problems again you can reopen it or open another tracker. John. --
  Fri Aug 21 11:41:29 2009 jmcnamara [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'