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
