On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:37:29AM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Oh goodie, another special case for prefixificaiton.
>
> MakeMaker does not prefix relative directories. The reasoning is lost,
> there's just this:
>
> -----------------------------------------------
> commit 2011f6497b6a2f94ae670bb3208d7bff80dbad33
> Author: Michael G Schwern <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue Nov 4 00:13:05 2003 +0000
>
> - Fixing minor bug in VMS prefixification logic when PREFIX was not
> set
> by the user.
> - Fixing potential bug in prefixification for relative directories
>
> Basically, we check $self->{ARGS}{PREFIX} first to see if prefixification
> is necessary. We also don't bother to prefixify relative directories.
>
>
> git-svn-id:
> http://svn.schwern.org/repos/CPAN/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/tr...@1812
> 8151f2b9-fde8-0310-94fd-f048d12aab9e
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> Encountering a perl with a relative @INC was never considered. In fact, it
> seems the tests are being run while Perl has an @INC that includes things
> which are not even valid paths! This doesn't seem like such a hot idea.
>
> Anyhow, I don't remember why prefixification didn't apply to relative
> directories so I'll just remove that.
>
> I've committed it and pushed out 6.55_02.
I tried applying it to blead, but got lots of test failures in
lib/ExtUtils/t/00compile.t:
Test Summary Report
-------------------
../lib/ExtUtils/t/00compile.t (Wstat: 3840
Tests: 950 Failed: 15)
Failed tests: 23, 87, 197, 269, 385, 387, 391, 393, 437
533, 593, 687, 735, 797, 801
$ cd t
$ ./TEST -v ../lib/ExtUtils/t/00compile.t
t/../lib/ExtUtils/t/00compile....1..950
ok 1
ok 2 # skip Test::Pod not installed
ok 3
ok 4 # skip Test::Pod not installed
ok 5
ok 6 # skip Test::Pod not installed
ok 7
ok 8 # skip Test::Pod not installed
ok 9
ok 10 # skip Test::Pod not installed
ok 11
ok 12 # skip Test::Pod not installed
ok 13
ok 14 # skip Test::Pod not installed
ok 15
ok 16 # skip Test::Pod not installed
ok 17
ok 18 # skip Test::Pod not installed
ok 19
ok 20 # skip Test::Pod not installed
ok 21
ok 22 # skip Test::Pod not installed
not ok 23
# Failed test at ../lib/ExtUtils/t/00compile.t line 36.
# require autodie/t/lib/autodie/test/au.pm failed.
# Can't locate autodie/test/au/exception.pm in @INC (@INC contains: . ../lib
lib) at autodie/t/lib/autodie/test/au.pm line 7.
# BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at autodie/t/lib/autodie/test/au.pm line 7.
# Compilation failed in require at ../lib/ExtUtils/t/00compile.t line 36.
FAILED at test 23
Failed 1 test out of 1, 0.00% okay.
../lib/ExtUtils/t/00compile.t
$ grep au.pm ../MANIFEST
lib/autodie/t/lib/autodie/test/au.pm autodie - Austrlaian helper
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