Re: Perl 5.26 and windows build system

On 10/17/2018 05:16 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>
> On 10/17/2018 04:38 AM, Victor Wagner wrote:
>> Colleagues,
>>
>> Since Active State stopped to distribute perl 5.22, we decided to
>> upgrade installer builds to most use recent version available
>> (5.26.1.2601 now).
>>
>> But upstream perl changes policy around this version and no longer
>> adds current directory to the module search path.
>>
>> This doesn't break work of build.pl, which allready handles module
>> search path itself, but breaks install.pl, mkvcbuild.pl and
>> vcregress.pl, which
>> expect to be started from src/tools/msvc.
>>
>> Simple adding
>>
>> use lib ".";
>>
>> to the beginning of these script solves problem.
>
>
> The buildfarm code uses this pattern:
>
>    use File::Spec;
>
>    BEGIN
>    {
>         use lib File::Spec->rel2abs(dirname(__FILE__));
>    }
>
> So that the added path is not the current directory but the one where
> the file lives. I think that's probably a better way to do it.
>
>

This would also need

    use File::Basename;

cheers

andrew

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