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Re: Missing directories in @INC with perl 5.8.7 and cygwin 1.5.18-1
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:43:03AM +0100, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> Frank_Ehlert@arburg.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >If PERL5LIB is set, perl searches for according version directories and
> >architecture specific directories.
> >If they are present they will be included in the @INC array.
> >
> >
> >Now I am faced with the problem that with perl 5.8.7 this does not work
> >anymore!
>
> There is a new feature in perl, if there is a the script
> $Config{siteperl}/sitecustomize.pl present it will be executed. See
> http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.7/pod/perlrun.pod#%2Df how to
> disable it or how it may help you until an update of perl with a
> workaround is released, from perlrun.pod:
>
> -f
>
> Disable executing $Config{siteperl}/sitecustomize.pl at startup.
>
> Perl can be built so that it by default will try to execute
> $Config{siteperl}/sitecustomize.pl at startup. This is a hook that
> allows the sysadmin to customize how perl behaves. It can for instance
> be used to add entries to the @INC array to make perl find modules in
> non-standard locations.
>
>
> Maybe this feature is also the reason that it behaves different from
> previous releases.
No, it's just a problem with the cygwin release. S_incpush in perl.c
only looks for the full archname ("cygwin-thread-multi-64int") and
revision.patchlevel.subversion ("5.8.7") as subdirectories, but we are
setting things to make makemaker install modules using just 5.8 and
cygwin, even when a PREFIX is specified (not sure if this applies to
INSTALL_BASE as well).
Some changes to Configure are needed to make this cleaner.
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