Op een grimmige herfstdag (Sunday 07 November 2004 20:15),schreef Craig A.
Berry:
> At 12:11 PM +0100 11/7/04, Abe Timmerman wrote:
> >I see this on Alpha (not on VAX!). It makes Test::Smoke on alpha rather
> > hard.
>
> I can't reproduce this, so the particular point of breakage may be
> specific to the machine you are running on.
I was afraid of that :(
[snip code]
> >./x2p
> >./wince
> >./wince/include
> >./wince/include/sys
> >./wince/include/arpa
> >./wince/bin
> >Can't cd to (./) win32: invalid argument
> > at fftest.pl line 13
> >%SYSTEM-F-ABORT, abort
> >
> >Does anyone know why, or a way around it?
>
> What version of Perl and/or File::Find? File::Find has had at least
> a couple pretty serious bugs fixed sometime in the Perl 5.8
> timeframe.
perl 5.8.0
MAN:FASOLT$ perl "-MV=File::Find"
File::Find
perl_root:[lib.File]Find.pm: 1.04
> What you are seeing typically happens when there is a
> logical name that coincides with a subdirectory name. I believe this
> has been fixed in current versions of File::Find, but if you've got
> Perl 5.6.1 you will probably still see it.
>
> I'm not 100% sure this is the problem you are encountering, but you
> can check for the existence of logical names that might be throwing
> it off track:
>
> $ show logical include
> $ show logical win32
nope, none of these defined
> Another odd thing in the output you posted is the order of the
> directories it finds. When I run your script with maintperl, the end
> of the list looks like:
>
> ./vms/ext/stdio
> ./vos
> ./win32
> ./win32/bin
> ./win32/ext
> ./win32/ext/win32
> ./win32/include/arpa
> ./win32/include/sys
> ./wince
> ./wince/bin
> ./wince/include/arpa
> ./wince/include/sys
> ./x2p
>
>
> so it's giving them to me in alphabetical order, but in your example,
> it seems to think wince comes before win32.
Yeah, on the VAX machine I also see reversed order, but at least it works.
I'll try to debug File::Find with this script...
Good luck,
Abe
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