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On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Dave Mitchell wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 02:37:50PM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote: > > On 10 Aug 2009, at 10:05, sisyphus1@optusnet.com.au wrote: > >>> Could you try the > >>> fix I mention in the bug report and check if the missing entries will > >>> reappear if the full path for $^X isn't mangled? > >> > >> Damn - I've been looking at that mangling of $^X a few times, as it's > >> the only place that GetShortPathName() is called within the Test and > >> TAP trees ... but I was too stupid to think of commenting out that line > >> just to see what difference it makes :-( > > > > Sorry that I'm arriving late at this thread. I'll apply the appropriate > > fix to Test::Harness. > > Is that something that can or needs to be in 5.10.1 ? If you are going to apply the change I'm going to commit to blead later, then it doesn't matter anymore because Perl will auto-correct $^X and @INC on startup. This change to win32/win32.c is more comprehensive because it will cover not just Test-Harness, but any use case where Perl is invoked with a (mangled) short pathname. Cheers, -JanThread Previous | Thread Next