use Perl

Patch for Dreamhost

Journal written by schwern (1528) and posted by brian_d_foy on 2008.03.04 19:57   

As threatened earlier, I've written up a patch to fix Cwd.pm in perl so it will build in a Dreamhost account. Now you can upgrade to 5.8.8.

The issue is that Perl's own version of abs_path() didn't know how to deal with a parent directory it didn't have read permissions on. On Dreamhost, you can't read /home. The patch will eventually go into PathTools.

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• FindBin, etc (Score:1)

  by davegaramond (3597)

  Thanks for this. I used to be in a somewhat similar situation a few years back (/home's read permission is turned off) and I remember not being able to use FindBin (which uses abs_path() too).
  
  Btw, what's the point of blocking read access to /home. So a hos
• Eliminating other's copyright notices... (Score:1)

  by hummassa (6137)

  is extremely uncool; please, add your copyright notice instead of substituting the original ones... unless you rewrote the whole thing from scratch...
  • Re: (Score:2)

    by schwern (1528)

    is extremely uncool; please, add your copyright notice instead of substituting the original ones... unless you rewrote the whole thing from scratch...

    I believe you're referring to this?

    - * Copyright (c) 1994
    - *    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
    - *
    - * This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
    - * Jan-Simon Pendry.
    + * Copyright (c) 20