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Id: 89664
Status: open
Priority: 0/
Queue: PathTools
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Requestors: ether [...] cpan.org
jkeenan [...] cpan.org
KENTNL [...] cpan.org
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Severity: Important
Broken in: 3.40
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  Mon Oct 21 17:46:20 2013 KENTNL [...] cpan.org - Ticket created
Subject: Should not install to archlib on >5.12

Given how the @INC order changed in >=5.11, the behaviour of clobbering archlib's files is no longer necessary, as installing to sitelib now automatically shadows.

And an unfortunate consequence of installing to archlib, means that if you're foolish and accidentally install from CPAN, you'll possibly find yourself installing an *OLDER* version of PathTools, and having it clobber your PathTools from Perl, with no way to "undo" that accident short of reinstalling perl from scratch.

Carp does the right thing: https://metacpan.org/source/ZEFRAM/Carp-1.32/Makefile.PL#L18

    INSTALLDIRS => "$]" < 5.011 ? "perl" : "site",

 

So this is merely a request that PathTools follows that example and installs to sitelib where relevant.

 

  Sat Nov 23 22:50:10 2013 jkeenan [...] cpan.org - Reference to perl ticket #116479 added
  Sat Nov 23 23:26:15 2013 jkeenan [...] cpan.org - Correspondence added
On Mon Oct 21 17:46:20 2013, KENTNL wrote: Show quoted text
> Given how the @INC order changed in >=5.11, the behaviour of > clobbering > archlib's files is no longer necessary, as installing to sitelib now > automatically shadows. > > And an unfortunate consequence of installing to archlib, means that if > you're > foolish and accidentally install from CPAN, you'll possibly find > yourself > installing an *OLDER* version of PathTools, and having it clobber your > PathTools from Perl, with no way to "undo" that accident short of > reinstalling > perl from scratch. > > Carp does the right thing: > https://metacpan.org/source/ZEFRAM/Carp-1.32/Makefile.PL#L18 > > INSTALLDIRS => "$]" < 5.011 ? "perl" : "site", > > So this is merely a request that PathTools follows that example and > installs to > sitelib where relevant.
This is a subset of the Makefile problems being discussed in rt.perl.org's ticket #116479. I have prepared a patch located here: https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Attachment/1269633/667195/116479-cwd-insufficient.patch ... but it is causing ancillary test failures.
  Sat Nov 23 23:26:15 2013 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'
  Tue Nov 26 18:42:04 2013 jkeenan [...] cpan.org - Requestor JKEENAN added
  Thu Nov 28 12:01:06 2013 ether [...] cpan.org - Requestor ETHER added
  Wed Oct 08 16:35:37 2014 ether [...] cpan.org - Reference by ticket #99386 added