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Id: 103807
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Requestors: KENTNL [...] cpan.org
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  Sat Apr 18 09:12:00 2015 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Incorrect parameter escaping leaves --as entirelyt unquoted

perlbrew install perl-5.21.10 -v --as ' --bogus '


This generates  a shell command line of:

 

(cd /home/vagrant/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.21.10 && rm -f config.sh Policy.sh && patchperl && sh Configure -de '-Dprefix=/home/vagrant/perl5/perlbrew/perls/ --bogus' '-Dusedevel' '-A'eval:scriptdir=/home/vagrant/perl5/perlbrew/perls/ --bogus/bin'' && make  && make test_harness && make install)

Take careful note of the '-A' quoting:

'-A'eval:scriptdir=/home/vagrant/perl5/perlbrew/perls/ --bogus/bin''
|xx|----------------||

xx parts are quoted.
-- parts are unquoted.

This means things as simple as spaces are enough to cause perlbrew to change where it passes its script dir, and instead pass an unintentionally shorter one, followed by an extraneous argument.

 

  Sat Apr 18 09:33:36 2015 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added

On 2015-04-19 01:12:00, KENTNL wrote:
> perlbrew install perl-5.21.10 -v --as ' --bogus '
>
>
> This generates a shell command line of:
>
> (cd /home/vagrant/perl5/perlbrew/build/perl-5.21.10 && rm -f config.sh
> Policy.sh && patchperl && sh Configure -de
> '-Dprefix=/home/vagrant/perl5/perlbrew/perls/ --bogus' '-Dusedevel'
> '-A'eval:scriptdir=/home/vagrant/perl5/perlbrew/perls/ --bogus/bin''
> && make &&
> make test_harness && make install)
>
> Take careful note of the '-A' quoting:
>
> '-A'eval:scriptdir=/home/vagrant/perl5/perlbrew/perls/ --bogus/bin''
> |xx|----------------||
>
> xx parts are quoted.
> -- parts are unquoted.
>
> This means things as simple as spaces are enough to cause perlbrew to
> change
> where it passes its script dir, and instead pass an unintentionally
> shorter
> one, followed by an extraneous argument.


More over, it appears the RHS of the equation *also*  needs quoting  as that -Aeval= line gets run somewhere.

For instance, manual pluming with

   -"A'eval:scriptdir=perl<5/bin'"

Is enough to create an unusual  bug occur:

Configure: line 1660: 5/bin: No such file or directory

Changing this to: 

   -"A'eval:scriptdir=\"perl<5/bin\"'"

 

Gets around config, and then perl itself gets ugly sometime post-config.