On Sat, 15 Jul 2017 09:44:28 -0700, jan-olof.hen...@bredband.net wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2017 06:55:46 -0800, mt1...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > In Rakudo version 2017.02-56-g9f10434 built on MoarVM version
> > 2017.02-7-g3d85900
> > implementing Perl 6.c I observed the following;
> >
> > Assume that a distribution is at /x/y (on Unix) then;
> >
> > 1) when no environment variable PERL6LIB is set, the modules from the
> > /x/y/lib directory can not be found. This is normal.
> >
> > 2) when PERL6LIB is set to the empty string, suddenly it is able to
> > find
> > the modules. This is not ok. this is the same when a dot is in the
> > string ('.'), to find modules in the current directory. What also
> > happens is that the path to the resource is calculated wrong. Assume
> > /x/y/resources/a.b, %?RESOURCES<a.b> returns /x/resources/a.b missing
> > the /y. When the bowels of the %?RESOURCES are displayed, the repo
> > key
> > misses the '/lib' at the end of its repository path.
> >
> > 3) when 'lib' is used in the PERL6LIB variable all is fine.
> >
> >
> > I was in the habit of using the string '.,lib' until perl6 choose the
> > dot over the 'lib' part and got faulty RESOURCES results in one of my
> > repositories.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Marcel
>
> A test for the PERL6LIB problem was added with
> https://github.com/perl6/roast/commit/10cf641e28dd7ba970082b36ece2ed2519fcf3a9
Also, the test was added because the PERL6LIB problem had been resolved
(https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/commit/075ddefa9b9366c0610632802eaf3c6fc9a6029f).
