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On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:33:45 +0000, Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> wrote:
> I believe that this fix also needs applying to Perl 1, as I found the same
> error in 1.0's Configure script.
>
> I doubt anyone can find a Perl bug older than this one :-)
>
> Nicholas Clark
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Nicholas Clark <nwc10+p5p4@colon.colondot.net> -----
>
> Envelope-to: nick@ccl4.org
> Delivery-date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:30:32 +0000
> Delivered-To: perl5-changes@perl.org
> From: Nicholas Clark <nwc10+p5p4@colon.colondot.net>
> To: "Anybody And Everybody" <perl5-changes@perl.org>
> Subject: Change 33318: Shell patterns are subject to tilde expansion. So the case statement
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:30:03 -0800 (PST)
>
> Change 33318 by nicholas@minne on 2008/02/15 14:27:55
>
> Shell patterns are subject to tilde expansion. So the case statement
> in the filexp script (written out by Configure) for expanding ~ and
> ~/* has never worked. It's always been relying on the /bin/csh glob
> for the ~* case. Few people ever noticed because one has to be
> building to one's home directory on a system with no csh installed.
> This is a bug from Perl 1.0's Configure!
>
> Affected files ...
>
> ... //depot/perl/Configure#683 edit
>
> Differences ...
>
> ==== //depot/perl/Configure#683 (xtext) ====
> Index: perl/Configure
> --- perl/Configure#682~33049~ 2008-01-23 01:18:41.000000000 -0800
> +++ perl/Configure 2008-02-15 06:27:55.000000000 -0800
> @@ -3589,7 +3589,7 @@
> $startsh
> : expand filename
> case "\$1" in
> - ~/*|~)
> + \~/*|\~)
> echo \$1 | $sed "s|~|\${HOME-\$LOGDIR}|"
> ;;
> ~*)
^
Not this one?
> End of Patch.
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
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