Thu Oct 18 12:01:40 2012: Request 80257 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RURBAN
Queue: Win32-API
Subject: presence of cygpath needs to be check on module load
Broken in: 0.72
Severity: Unimportant
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: bul...@cpan.org
Status: resolved
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=80257 >
On Thu Oct 18 01:15:46 2012, BULKDD wrote:
> On Cygwin builds, a backquote call is made to cygpath for DLL path
> conversion. If cygwin perl is started without cygwin being in the
PATH,
> cygpath will not be found and the DLL path turns to empty string
leading
> and fails, possibly with a bad $^E (I got "network connection lost"
but
> that might be part of my Perl debugger). Add a test call to cygpath
> during the modules require phase. Die during module load if cygpath
> backquote test call (I'm thinking a `cygpath -V` and an index string
> search) didn't work. Also check to make sure " if ($^O eq
> 'cygwin' and $dll ne File::Basename::basename($dll)) {" is const
folded
> away on VC Perl. This is a reminder for myself.
A cygwin system cannot work at all if the path to cygwin\bin is not in
the PATH. E.g. cygwin perl will not work. A lot of tests which reset or
localize a PATH have special CYGWIN code to set the PATH to include
\cygwin\bin.
So it's a very esoteric issue you are fighting here, and really not
worth checking.
--
Reini Urban
