Hello,

I am greatly simplifying the description of this problem. I believe the best solution would be to fix the "old code", but there is so much of it that this is not feasible.

I have 2 packages:

packageA.pm: 
package PackageA;

require "libraries/somelib.pl";

... variables, functions, etc
1;

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packageB.pm: 

package PackageB;

require "libraries/somelib.pl"; #NOTE: Same library as included in pac
+kageA

... variables, functions, etc
1;

[download]
.. Now I want to use both of these packages in a script: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use PackageA;
use PackageB;

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The problem is that the require in packageB never got executed. None of the functions or variables in somelib.pl exist within that namespace. Is there some reasonable solution to this problem? Again, I feel compelled to mention that the problem is far bigger then this small example I have show here. If the real world were this small I would just change somelib.pl into a module or something appropriate along those lines.

I have tried using "do"s, but unfortunately many of these libraries "require" other libraries which creates a situation where adding a "do" to one package can actually break another package because although the "do" is executed, none of the requires within the "done" file are..

I hope this makes sense!

- Greg

In reply to Perl use and require enigma by devnul

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