"require" change of behavior in 5.16 or slightly before?

Hi,

I have some build scripts that used to work in perl-5.10 and when we updated to perl-5.16 one in particular broke badly.

It does a:

require $config_file;

and two observations: (1) if $config_file is an absolute path, it no longer finds the file (I can see from a security standpoint that not being able to include arbitrary files anywhere on the system might be good…), and (2) if I change that too “… || die …” then the die doesn’t happen.

Were there changes along the way to how “require” behaves?  And what’s the workaround?

Thanks,

-Philip

• "require" change of behavior in 5.16 or slightly before? by Philip Prindeville
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