On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 01:14 +0100, Roderich Schupp wrote: > On 11/7/06, Peter Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At this point either I have made a mistake and/or am thoroughly > > confused. > > No, it's what I suspected. Your build of PAR has been done against some > older version of perl (or at least of Scalar::Util) - that's the stuff > extracted with > my script. It's probably a bug that a second, newer version was also > culled from the > pp'ing system - that's the stuff extracted with unzip. But anyway, the > old stuff is > used once the pp'ed executable gets invoked and it doesn't fit well with newer > stuff from the pp'ing system. This problem is currently heavily discussed > in another thread on the par mailing list. > > The only thing missing in the puzzle is: why is this older stuff present? > It's "burned" into PAR at PAR build time, but you said you built PAR yourself > on the pp'ing machine, and didn't reinstall perl or Scalar::Util in > the meantime.
Maybe there is a misunderstanding here. I am using the ActiveState version of Perl, so I didn't build it myself. A local fix for me has been to eval the offending line. > Perhaps there are remnants of an old perl installation on that machine > that you aren't aware of? (e.g. another recent poster with a similar problem > discovered an older perl58.dll in his c:\windows\system32 directory, > apparently > installed by a third party application and picked up because of some > peculiar rules on Windows how to locate DLLs). > > As for the flashing-windows-when-using-backticks thing: > I once wrote an application using Tk, it drove a third party app using > their command > line interface (including reading and interpreting the output of such). > It used IPC::Run3 for that. When I pp'ed it with --gui it didn't have the > flashing windows effect. In any case, IPC::Run3 uses system() internally > (it does some fancy redirecting beforehand and afterwards to handle the > capture/feeding of stdin/stdout/stderr, though), so I'm surprised that > you see different behavious for system() and IPC::Run3. I'll try to experiment > a little over the weekend. > Thanks, Peter > Cheers, Roderich
