Thu Oct 07 14:41:24 2010: Request 61927 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RSCHUPP
Queue: PAR
Subject: $ENV{PAR_GLOBAL_TMPDIR} not used
Broken in: 1.002
Severity: Important
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: jf...@cpan.org
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=61927 >
On 2010-10-06 06:39:45, JFITZ wrote:
> I wasn't able to get PAR_GLOBAL_TMPDIR to work - the cache was being
> created in /tmp. Examination of PAR::SetupTemp shows that
> PAR_GLOBAL_TMPDIR is never used (a recursive grep of the distribution
> only finds it in ChangeLog and POD). PAR_TMPDIR is used:
The mention of PAR_GLOBAL_TMPDIR in the documentation looks like
a holdover from the time before PAR::Packer was split off from PAR.
It _is_ actually used in PAR::Packer. There are references to other
PAR_GLOBAL_* environment variables that are probably also wrong.
