Well I tried upgrading to the newest Perl 5.14 which is also 64 bit capable. I discovered that Tk.pm is not yet available from ppm. So I backed off to 5.12 which says Tk.pm is available on the ppm web site. For reasons I have not yet figured out, I get timeouts accessing ppm4.activestate.com.
Just as a slightly off topic question. Since my original question was answered with a top post, is this acceptable on this list? The guys on the Fedora lists get all bent out of shape if someone top posts. There are various references to incompatibilites between pm modules on 5.6 and 5.14 although I have not gotten far enough (not havimg Tk) to be sure if any of them affect the local .pm modules in my site.lib. Is there a summary of what sort of things break between 5.6 and 5.14? Sorting that out from the release notes is about as effective as ploughing ahead and just debugging. Thank you for the help. Bob ________________________________ From: Jan Dubois [mailto:j...@activestate.com] Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 10:39 AM To: Styma, Robert E (Robert); perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: RE: Window 7 x64, @inc search question Your description on how things are looked up sounds correct. You may want to run `perl -V` to check the list of directories in @INC, and the order in which they are searched (the order of lib and site/lib has changed between 5.6 and 5.14). Cheers, -Jan From: perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com [mailto:perl-win32-users-boun...@listserv.activestate.com] On Behalf Of Styma, Robert E (Robert) Sent: Friday, January 06, 2012 8:30 AM To: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Subject: Window 7 x64, @inc search question Robert E. Styma I have just joined this mailing list. I am responsible for an assortment of perl programs which I have inherited and am testing and adjusting to get them running under a Windows 7 X64 environment. At the time the code was written we were using Perl 5.6.1. When I discovered problems, I removed the old Perl and upgraded to: ActivePerl-5.14.2.1402-MSWin32-x64-295342.msi The problem I encountered remained the same. Here is the deal. ...\Perl\lib has a directory called File which has the file functions. In the Perl\site\lib we use there is also a directory called File which includes among other things, File\Recurse.pm. This comes up as a not found on when run on a Windows 7 x64 machine. If I copy the Recurse.pm to the ...\Perl\lib it is found. On Windows XP and Windows 7 x86 the Recurse.pm is found in the Perl\Site\Lib\File directory and the other appropriate modules are found in Perl\Lib\File. I only tested this on the Perl 5.6.1 version since it works. I suspect the problem is due to changes in the underlying OS code used to do the search. I personally think that naming the Perl\Site\Lib folder the same as a Perl\Lib folder was a poor choice. However, that is what is there and I want to make sure that this is the expected behavior before I try to untangle this with changes to the code. I am looking for confirmation that someone else has seen such behavior or that this is known to be the way it should work. If what is being done should work, then I need to figure out what to try next. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Bob Styma
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