Re: inching toward Module::Build-ability on VMS

[demerphq]

On 7/18/07, Michael G Schwern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Craig A. Berry wrote:
> The home-grown glob() implementation does not know what a tilde is,
> and it returns VMS-format filespecs as absolute, not relative specs.
> Both of these are contrary to the assumptions of various parts of
> Module::Build and account for a number of test failures.  The easiest
> thing should be to override glob() and do a little pre-processing to
> expand tildes and post-processing to convert paths from absolute to
> relative.  However, it has so far proven beyond my Perl foo to
> override CORE::GLOBAL::glob in terms of itself without either getting
> infinite recursion or having whatever I do in
> Module::Build::Platform::VMS ignored from within Module::Build::Base.

FWIW, you avoid the infinite recursion by calling CORE::glob() instead of just
glob().

sub _fixed_glob {
    ...
    CORE::glob(...);
    ...
}

BEGIN {
    local *CORE::GLOBAL::glob = \&fixed_glob;
}

That local doesnt seem right. Are you sure about that?

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