SID-02417: TopicClassificationAddOn install error- Insecure dependency

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.1.0	Perl version:	5.022004 (linux)
Category:	CategoryPlugins	Server OS:	Linux 3.13.0-042stab134.8 (x86_64-linux)	Last update:	6 years ago

Trying to install TopicClassificationAddOn I get an error:

Error: Installer returned errors:

Insecure dependency in chdir while running with -T switch at /var/www/mytwiki.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 84. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /var/www/mytwiki/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 108.

What goes wrong and how can I solve this?

-- Emiel Van Riel - 2019-10-21

Discussion and Answer

I tried the workaround of Bugs.Item6965 to remove the -T flag from the bin/configure script.

Error: Installer returned errors:

syntax error at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 133, near "$w qw( SystemWebName TrashWebName UsersWebName )" Global symbol "$w" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $w"?) at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 134. Global symbol "$file" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $file"?) at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 135. Global symbol "$file" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $file"?) at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 136. Global symbol "$w" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $w"?) at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 136. Global symbol "$w" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $w"?) at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 136. syntax error at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 137, near "}" Can't use global $1 in "my" at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 142, near "pub/$1" Global symbol "$t" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $t"?) at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 142. syntax error at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 143, near "}" /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl has too many errors. at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl line 143. require /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificationAddOn_installer.pl called at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/lib/TWiki/Configure/UIs/EXTEND.pm line 177 eval {...} called at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/lib/TWiki/Configure/UIs/EXTEND.pm line 175 TWiki::Configure::UIs::EXTEND::ui(TWiki::Configure::UIs::EXTEND=HASH(0x29357a0)) called at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/bin/configure line 690 TWiki::_actionInstallExtension() called at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/bin/configure line 460 at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/lib/CGI/Carp.pm line 353. CGI::Carp::realdie("syntax error at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificati"...) called at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/lib/CGI/Carp.pm line 443 CGI::Carp::die("syntax error at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/TopicClassificati"...) called at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/lib/TWiki/Configure/UIs/EXTEND.pm line 179 eval {...} called at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/lib/TWiki/Configure/UIs/EXTEND.pm line 175 TWiki::Configure::UIs::EXTEND::ui(TWiki::Configure::UIs::EXTEND=HASH(0x29357a0)) called at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/bin/configure line 690 TWiki::_actionInstallExtension() called at /var/www/junobase.com/twiki/bin/configure line 460

You may be able to resolve these errors and complete the installation from the command line, so I will leave the installed files where they are. Installation finished.

I also tried to complete the installation from the command line, but this gives also an error:

mytwiki.com/twiki# perl TopicClassificationAddOn _installer

syntax error at TopicClassificationAddOn _installer line 133, near "$w qw( SystemWebName TrashWebName UsersWebName )" Global symbol "$w" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $w"?) at TopicClassificationAddOn _installer line 134. Global symbol "$file" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $file"?) at TopicClassificationAddOn _installer line 135. Global symbol "$file" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $file"?) at TopicClassificationAddOn _installer line 136. Global symbol "$w" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $w"?) at TopicClassificationAddOn _installer line 136. Global symbol "$w" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $w"?) at TopicClassificationAddOn _installer line 136. syntax error at TopicClassificationAddOn _installer line 137, near "}" Can't use global $1 in "my" at TopicClassificationAddOn _installer line 142, near "pub/$1" Global symbol "$t" requires explicit package name (did you forget to declare "my $t"?) at TopicClassificationAddOn _installer line 142. syntax error at TopicClassificationAddOn _installer line 143, near "}" TopicClassificationAddOn _installer has too many errors. at TopicClassificationAddOn _installer line 143.

-- Emiel Van Riel - 2019-10-23

Does this (also) have to do with the defined ( ) construct?

-- Emiel Van Riel - 2019-10-26

These syntax error are not really related to the defined () thingy, but they also belong into the category "things which had been deprecated long ago and are now a syntax error" - in this case, the change came with Perl 5.18 (see the perldelta entry).

There are two instances of the bad qw code in the installer. both in the remap subroutine. For some context, here's how the code should look like (note the two extra pair of parentheses, highlighted in red):

sub remap {
    my $file = shift;
    if (defined $cfg{SitePrefsTopicName}) {
        $file =~ s#^data/(TWiki|Main)/TWikiPreferences\.txt(.*)$#data/$1/$cfg{SitePrefsTopicName}.txt$2#;
    }
    if (defined $cfg{UsersTopicName}) {
        $file =~ s#(Main)/TWikiUsers\.txt(.*)$#$1/$cfg{UsersTopicName}.txt$2#;
    }
    foreach my $w ( qw( SystemWebName TrashWebName UsersWebName ) ) {
        if (defined $cfg{$w}) {
            $file =~ s#^data/$w/#data/$cfg{$w}/#;
            $file =~ s#^pub/$w/#pub/$cfg{$w}/#;
        }
    }
    foreach my $t ( qw( NotifyTopicName HomeTopicName WebPrefsTopicName MimeTypesFileName ) ) {
        if (defined $cfg{$t}) {
            $file =~ s#^data/(.*)/$t\.txt(,v)?#data/$1/$cfg{$t}.txt$2/#;
            $file =~ s#^pub/(.*)/$t/([^/]*)$#pub/$1/$cfg{$t}/$2/#;
        }
    }
    return $file;
}

-- Harald Jörg - 2019-10-29

Thanks again, Harald. When I have everything working, I will see if I can contibute in fixing these bugs in CODEV.

-- Emiel Van Riel - 2019-11-06

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