Bill Luebkert wrote:
>  Michael Ellery wrote:
> > Michael Ellery wrote:
> >> I've been under the impression that Getopt::Long is included with 
> >> most (if not all) distributions of perl.  Recently I've encountered a 
> >> few Activestate versions that don't seem to have it installed.  What 
> >> the current policy with this package - is it included?  As of which 
> >> version did it become standard?
> >>
> >
> > ..and it gets worse.  For those versions that seem to have 
> > Getopt::Long but that don't have the minimum version I require (2.36), 
> > I've tried installing the latest (using ppm), but at runtime perl 
> > always loads the "builtin" version and not my upgraded version in 
> > site/lib.  Any ideas how I can fix this?
>  
>  I have version 2.37 in my site/lib (not sure if that's usable or not).
>  
>  Try posting the output of this script:
>  
>  use strict;
>  use warnings;
>  use Getopt::Long;
>  
>  print "$_\n" foreach @INC; print "\n";
>  
>  print "$_ => $INC{$_}\n" foreach keys %INC;
>  
>  __END__
>  
>  

OUTPUT from a 5.8.7 installation:

C:\Documents and Settings\testuser.S2TECH> perl 
//s2server1/infrastructure/libpath.pl
C:/Perl/lib
C:/Perl/site/lib
.

warnings/register.pm =>  C:/Perl/lib/warnings/register.pm
Carp.pm =>  C:/Perl/lib/Carp.pm
warnings.pm =>  C:/Perl/lib/warnings.pm
Exporter/Heavy.pm =>  C:/Perl/lib/Exporter/Heavy.pm
vars.pm =>  C:/Perl/lib/vars.pm
Exporter.pm =>  C:/Perl/lib/Exporter.pm
strict.pm =>  C:/Perl/lib/strict.pm
constant.pm =>  C:/Perl/lib/constant.pm
Getopt/Long.pm =>  C:/Perl/lib/Getopt/Long.pm

My local 5.8.8 installation works fine because it appears to have 2.37 
"built-in", so I never had to install or upgrade.  Older distributions 
seem to have either not Getopt::Long or an antiquated version (I'm 
relying on a function in 2.36+).

Thanks,
Mike

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