How do I curtail the noise

Red_Dragon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Wise Ones,

After having installed Perl 5.10, my script now issues these messages each time it runs:

Subroutine connect redefined at E:/Perl/lib/DBD/ODBC.pm line 81.
Subroutine parse_trace_flag redefined at E:/Perl/lib/DBD/ODBC.pm line 118.
Subroutine private_attribute_info redefined at E:/Perl/lib/DBD/ODBC.pm line 123.
Subroutine prepare redefined at E:/Perl/lib/DBD/ODBC.pm line 143.
Subroutine column_info redefined at E:/Perl/lib/DBD/ODBC.pm line 161.
Subroutine columns redefined at E:/Perl/lib/DBD/ODBC.pm line 177.
Subroutine table_info redefined at E:/Perl/lib/DBD/ODBC.pm line 194.

is there some way to shut this off?

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Re: How do I curtail the noise by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 13, 2010 at 20:14 UTC
Don't load DBD::ODBC twice. On Windows this can happen inadverently by having two statements like: `use DBD::Odbc; use dBd::ODBC;` [download] or , in the case of DBI, having two connection strings that are not uppercase: `dbi:ODBC:...` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: How do I curtail the noise by talexb (Chancellor) on Jul 14, 2010 at 14:33 UTC
This isn't something I've looked into, but doesn't Perl have some mechanism to prevent loading the same module twice? I know I've seen something like this in C `#include` files -- one of the first lines is an `#ifdef` that checks to see if this file has been included already, and if so, skips the entire file. As a corollary, why would a developer want to load a module twice? Alex / talexb / Toronto "Groklaw is the open-source mentality applied to legal research" ~ Linus Torvalds	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: How do I curtail the noise by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 14, 2010 at 14:39 UTC
Perl uses %INC to keep track of require'd files. On case-insensitive file systems, you can load the same file under more than one name. For example: `use Strict;` [download] loads `strict.pm` but never calls its `import` method.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: How do I curtail the noise by talexb (Chancellor) on Jul 14, 2010 at 14:47 UTC
Re^5: How do I curtail the noise by Corion (Patriarch) on Jul 14, 2010 at 14:55 UTC
Re: How do I curtail the noise by ww (Archbishop) on Jul 13, 2010 at 20:54 UTC
That's not noise; that's the sound of your code trying to help you get it right.	[reply]