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[perl #87322] Large PERL5LIB ENV values get ignored instead of imported into @INC on Windows 7

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From:
Christian Walde via RT
Date:
July 11, 2011 02:06
Subject:
[perl #87322] Large PERL5LIB ENV values get ignored instead of imported into @INC on Windows 7
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-30268-1310344672-1313.87322-15-0@perl.org
On Wed Mar 30 06:35:51 2011, Mithaldu wrote:
> On Windows 7 environment variable values can be arbitrarily large.
> However the perl executable ignores $ENV{PERL5LIB} if it goes above
> 32kbyte, despite being able to read it properly. This behavior can
> be reproduced with this minimal test script (example run outputs
> included):
> 
> https://gist.github.com/894331

Nobody seems to have taken an interest, and i sadly lack the knowledge 
and skill to poke at it myself. This is however still being an issue and 
is causing false negatives when smoking on Win7.

So i have to ask: Could someone please take a look at whatever piece of 
code populates @INC? :)

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