Nicholas Clark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've made another 5.8.x snapshot.
Here's a sticky issue that is biting me as I verify perl-33218 on
Stratus VOS. I can use some advice.
We have a few restrictions on file names on our operating system. One
restriction is that don't allow file names to start with a hyphen.
Thus, the file:
perl-33218/t/Module_Pluggable/lib/OddTest/Plugin/-Dodgy.pm
cannot be extracted from the archive.
Naturally, Configure's check against the MANIFEST file then fails. I
don't see any existing way to defeat this check. I guess I could update
README.vos to tell people to edit the MANIFEST file, but I'm looking for
something more automatic.
I'm assume that you really want a file by that name for testing, so I
was not going to propose renaming the file. Hmm. I suppose I could
change the test to try to create this file on the fly -- that would work
for everyone else and would fail for me. But that's ok.
Or I could place an "optional" tag in the MANIFEST file and fix
Configure to look for it.
Suggestions? Got a better idea?
Thanks
PG
