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On Mon Jul 21 05:32:27 2003, slaven@rezic.de wrote:
> "Vrihad Shoonya" <vrihad@myway.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > >> I am compiling perl-5.8.0 in chrooted environment
> > >> where many system tools are not in its proper places.
> > >> --snip--
> >
> > > Cwd.pm should check $ENV{PATH} for an executable pwd,
> > > hence you should set your PATH variable appropriately.
> > I think it is not happening with Cwd.pm available in
> > lib/Cwd.pm in perl source tree. I checked the file and
> > though I am not a perl expert, the path for /usr/bin/pwd
> > and /bin/pwd is checked explicitly here. And my PATH
> > variable contains /usr/local/bin.
>
> This is the code (beginning at line 211):
>
> unless(defined &cwd) {
> # The pwd command is not available in some chroot(2)'ed environments
> if( $^O eq 'MacOS' || (defined $ENV{PATH} &&
> grep { -x "$_/pwd" } split(':', $ENV{PATH})) )
> {
> *cwd = \&_backtick_pwd;
> ...
>
> >
> > > As an alternative, you can use fastcwd() instead,
> > > which on many systems use an cwd implementation
> > > which does not need external tools.
> > I don't know how to use it. I am talking about the
> > perl configuration script which uses Cwd::cwd() and it
> > was failing in my case. Anyway the problem is solved by
> > providing a symlink of /usr/local/bin/pwd to /usr/bin/pwd.
> >
>
> perl -MCwd=fastcwd -e 'warn fastcwd'
>
> or to still retain calling cwd(), but using fastcwd() under the hood:
>
> perl -MCwd= -e '*cwd=\&Cwd::fastcwd; warn cwd'
>
> Regards,
> Slaven
>
I reviewed this older ticket tonight. Slaven appears to have provided a
reasonable response to the original poster's concerns. I am taking this
ticket for the purpose of closing it in seven days, unless someone else
wants to take it over.
Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan
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https://rt.perl.org:443/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=23011
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