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On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 07:39:34AM -0700, Tim Jenness wrote: > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 7:36 AM, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote: > > > Fixing this as-is to File::stat::stat() won't help, as tests have > > subsequently been added earlier in the script that trigger the autoloading > > of Symbol by File::stat (commit 83716b1ec25b41f2 in Feb 2002). Moving the > > tests earlier won't help now that the test uses File::Temp, as *that* > > unconditionally loads Symbol. > > > > File::Temp is not meant to load Symbol. The code is > > 160 require Symbol if $] < 5.006; > > so is that code broken? No. But it uses IO::Seekable which uses IO::Handle which uses Symbol, so in the test script, it was the use line which was indirectly causing Symbol to be loaded. Sorry, should have been clearer. Nicholas ClarkThread Previous