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I am trying to build Perl (
rsync://public.activestate.com/perl-current/ ) on Fedora 8,
2.6.24.7-92.fc8.
The test t/op/exec.t is failing on line 97. Apparently, running the
following code:
system { "lskdfj" } "lskdfj"';
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... on Fedora sets $! to "Not a directory". Perl 5.8 on Ubuntu and
Perl 5.10 on Cygwin both set $! to "No such file or directory", which
would make the test pass.
Is it the expected behavior on Fedora?
I tried asking about it on perlmonks (
http://www.perlmonks.com/?node_id=695308 ). Moritz Lentz kindly
suggested running a C program that uses execl() and see what kind of
an error it produces. It produced "No such file or directory". Here's
the C code:
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <errno.h>
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
execl("sadlfjsdf", "foo");
printf("%s\n", strerror(errno)); # prints in the same environment
}
Also, it looks like something like this has been discussed once -
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2006/04/msg111460.html
But i don't see a solution there.
Thanks in advance.
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