[Expectperl-discuss] Re: perl 500404 with Expect 1.15

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Blackstone, J. David writes: 

>  
> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ex...@ih... [mailto:ex...@ih...]
>> Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 7:35 PM
>> To: Blackstone, J. David
>> Cc: exp...@li...
>> Subject: Re: perl 500404 with Expect 1.15
> 
> ... 
> 
>> It looks like my problems are in Expect with spawn
>> these lines seem to be where things just hang:  
>> 
>>   144      open(STDIN,"<&". $slv->fileno())
>>   147      open(STDOUT,">&". $slv->fileno())
>>   150      open(STDERR,">&". $slv->fileno())  
>> 
>> Okay maybe I'm SOL but maybe someone has a hunch on what
>> the problem is???
> 
>   I think that is fairly new syntax as well.  I was trying something like
> that recently in an unrelated program and had trouble making it work, but I
> don't remember if it was because it was an older perl. 
> 
>> >   5.004 is several years old; I'd hammer my sysadmin with 
>> this and beg them
>> > to upgrade. :) 
>> 
>> If only life were so simple....I have the power to perform the upgrade
>> but there are dependencies on this perl.  I don't know what 
>> they are.... 
> 
>   Oh, ho, ho. :)   You need my super-special means of running many perls at
> once trick.  Compile with --prefix=/usr/local/perl561.  Make symlinks from
> everything in /usr/local/perl561/bin EXCEPT /usr/local/perl561/bin/perl into
> /usr/local/bin.  Then write your programs explicitly with:
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1
> or
> #!/usr/[local/]?bin/perl5.00502 
> 
>   Then your programs don't break on upgrades and you can easily remove a
> version as a unit if and when you upgrade all programs that used it.

I must be missing something obvious.... How will this co-exist
with the the current /usr/local/bin/perldoc etc.??