[ID 20000210.002] Looking for pointer to aid for updating olderperl code

This is a bug report for perl from lvirden@cas.org,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.27 running under perl v5.5.650.


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After installing this latest version of perl, I find that scripts which invoke
perl -e "eval{require 5.003};"
to determine whether or no the interpreter can support the features they
require get this error:
syntax error at -e line 1, near "require 5.5"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

Is there a change that all these scripts can make so that regardless of
the version of perl, they can make this determination?



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Site configuration information for perl v5.5.650:

Configured by lwv26 at Thu Feb 10 08:35:00 EST 2000.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 5 subversion 650) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=solaris, osvers=2.6, archname=sun4-solaris
    uname='sunos lwv26awu 5.6 generic_105181-16 sun4u sparc sunw,ultra-5_10 '
    config_args=''
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
    usesocks=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
    use64bits=undef uselargefiles=define usemultiplicity=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-g', gccversion=
    cppflags='-DDEBUGGING -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/include -I/vol/lwv26ldatae/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/ccs/include'
    ccflags ='-DDEBUGGING -I/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/include -I/vol/lwv26ldatae/include -I/usr/include -I/usr/ccs/include -DUSE_LONG_LONG -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
    stdchar='unsigned char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    alignbytes=8, usemymalloc=y, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags ='-L/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib -L/vol/lwv26ldatae/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -R/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib:/vol/lwv26ldatae/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/ccs/lib '
    libpth=/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib /usr/lib /usr/ccs/lib
    libs=-lsocket -lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lcrypt -lsec
    libc=/lib/libc.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags=' '
    cccdlflags='-KPIC', lddlflags='-G -L/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib -L/vol/lwv26ldatae/lib -L/usr/lib -L/usr/ccs/lib -R/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/lib:/vol/lwv26ldatae/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/ccs/lib'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl v5.5.650:
    /home/lwv26/lib/perl5/
    /projects/sprs_lwv/lib/perl5/
    /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib/perl5/5.5.650/sun4-solaris
    /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib/perl5/5.5.650
    /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.5.650/sun4-solaris
    /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.5.650
    /vol/lwv26ldatae/lib/perl5/site_perl
    .

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Environment for perl v5.5.650:
    HOME=/home/lwv26
    LANG=C
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/lprod/cas/lib:/usr/dt/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/lib:/vol/ora_client/product/7.3.4/lib
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/opt/SUNWspro/bin:/ldatae/bin:/projects/sprs_lwv/sol26/bin:/projects/sprs_lwv/sol26/bin/mime:/projects/sprs_lwv/sol2/bin:/projects/sprs_lwv/bin:/projects/sprs_lwv/bin/mime:/home/lwv26/bin/D.news:/usr/perl5/bin:/projects/gnu/sparc-sun-solaris2.6/bin:/usr/tcl82/sun4/bin:/usr/tcl82/bin:/projects/xopsrc/sun4/bin:/projects/xopsrc/bin:/usr/atria/bin:/projects/intranet/bin:/projects/clearcase/bin:/vol/tclsrcsol/TclPro1.3/solaris-sparc/bin:/ldata2/teTeX/bin/sparc-sun-solaris2.6:/vol/adobe/Acrobat3/bin:/ldata/bin:/home/lwv26/bin/D.aws:/home/lwv26/bin/sol2:/home/lwv26/bin/D.frontend:/home/lwv26/bin/D.ksh:/cas/test/bin/sun4:/projects/sprs_lwv/bin/sol2:/usr/java1.2/bin:/home/lwv26/bin/sun4:/lprod/cas/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/dt/bin:/usr/openwin/bin:/bin:/cas/bin/sun4:/cas/abin/sun4:/cas/X11/sun4/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/uprod/bin:/usr/sbin:/cas/tools/bin/sun4:/cas/X11/sun4/tools/bin:/usr/ucb:/home/lwv26/bin:/cas/tools/pdbin/sun4:/home/lwv26/bin/D.mistypes:/home/lwv26/bin/D.toys:/home/lwv!
26/bin/D.tools:/projects/npd/npdweb/bin-sol2:/vol/ora_client/product/7.3.4/bin
    PERL5LIB=/home/lwv26/lib/perl5/:/projects/sprs_lwv/lib/perl5/:
    PERLDOC=-t
    PERLLIB=/home/lwv26/lib/perl:/projects/sprs_lwv/lib/perl:
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/ksh

• [ID 20000210.002] Looking for pointer to aid for updating olderperl code by Larry W. Virden
• Re: [ID 20000210.002] Looking for pointer to aid for updating older perl code by Gurusamy Sarathy
• Re: [ID 20000210.002] Looking for pointer to aid for updating older perl code by Gurusamy Sarathy