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  Thu Feb 05 00:38:19 2004 Guest - Ticket created
Subject: Inline
Using perl 5.8(Active Perl) Under WinXP I found that when I used the inline LIBS => -L to specify a directory, it worked fine as long as I used an absolute path, but if I used a relative path it didn't. ie with the following directory tree c:\dir\a c:\dir\a\mylib.lib c:\dir\b c:\dir\b\inlinescript.pl and calling the script from within b -Lc:\dir\a WORKED -L..\a DIDN'T work On further investigation I found that this is due to this argument being passed directly to makemaker, even though makemaker is run in the dir c:\b\_Inline\build\inlinescript_asdf\ this meant that -L..\..\..\..\a WORKED This is very unintuitive and not documented anywhere. Not sure how you can fix it though. PS. Inline is awesome. Been having lots of fun with it:)
  Mon Jun 29 08:49:28 2009 sisyphus [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
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> This is very unintuitive and not documented anywhere.
Easiest fix would be to document this in Inline/C.pod. Same applies not only to LIBS, but to INC, TYPEMAPS and MYEXTLIB as well. It would be possible to have File::Spec->rel2abs() convert all specified paths to absolute paths, but that would entail being able to deal with values such as (the string) "-L../path -lmylib - L../other_path -lotherlib" and (the array reference) "['-L../path - lmylib', '-L../other_path -lotherlib']". That gets a bit messy and tedious for my liking - and I don't see why it can't be left to the author of the script to do the rel2abs() stuff, by specifying, eg: LIBS => '-L' . File::Spec->rel2abs('../path') . ' -lmylib', (But it *does* need to be documented.) Cheers, Rob
  Mon Jun 29 08:49:29 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Mon Jun 29 19:16:33 2009 sisyphus [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
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>and I don't see why it can't be left to the > author of the script to do the rel2abs() stuff
Using $FindBin::Bin might be simpler than File::Spec->rel2abs(). Cheers, Rob
  Thu Feb 11 22:38:40 2010 sisyphus [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
Fixed in Inline-0.46
  Thu Feb 11 22:38:41 2010 sisyphus [...] cpan.org - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'