From tchrist@jhereg.perl.com

When you try to do a make install, you get this​:

  ./perl installperl
  Can't load 'lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so' for module File​::Glob​:
  No such file or directory at lib/XSLoader.pm line 73.
  at lib/File/Glob.pm line 94

  Compilation failed in require at installperl line 65.
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at installperl line 65.

That's what's happening with make install, which hacks up its own @​INC.

I get 100% compliance on make test, too. (Well, once rand#7 failed,
but not repeatably!).

Here's a bit more investigation​:

  % pwd
  /usr/local/src/perl5.005_63

  % ./perl -le 'print <*.y>'
  Can't locate File/Glob.pm in @​INC (@​INC contains​: /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00563/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00563 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.00563/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at -e line 1.
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
  Exit 2

  % ./perl -Ilib -le 'print <*.y>'
  Can't load 'lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so' for module File​::Glob​: No such file or directory at lib/XSLoader.pm line 73.
  at lib/File/Glob.pm line 94
  Compilation failed in require at -e line 1.
  BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at -e line 1.
  Exit 255

  % ls -l lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so
  -rwxr-xr-x 1 tchrist wheel 17971 Dec 11 08​:30 lib/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so

Now, isn't that odd? It's there, but it can't find it. Let's
try something else...

  % ./perl -I $cwd/lib -le 'print <*.y>'
  perly.y

See that? If you give a path that's absolute, not relative,
it works. Isn't that interesting? It gets better.

  % cd t
  % ../perl op/glob.t
  1..6
  ok 1
  ok 2
  ok 3
  ok 4
  ok 5
  ok 6

Now, why did that work. Oh. The test loads @​INC to contain
"../lib".

  % ../perl -I ../lib -le 'print join(" ", <*>)'
  README TEST UTEST base cmd comp harness io lib op perl pod pragma

So it's not just absolute it works in. It's ok with "../lib"
as well.

I started looking through DynaLoader.pm for instances of "dir"
and path mungeing, but there's so much of it, I thought I'd stop
now and mail it in.

Here's what I'm running​:

  % ./perl -Ilib -V
  Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 5 subversion 63) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=openbsd, osvers=2.6, archname=OpenBSD.i386-openbsd
  uname='openbsd neldoreth 2.6 generic#680 i386 '
  config_args='-des'
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  use64bits=undef usemultiplicity=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.95.1 19990816 (release)
  cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
  ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
  stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=true
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
  alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='ld', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /usr/lib
  libs=-lm -lc
  libc=/usr/lib/libc.so.23.1, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=define, ccdlflags=' '
  cccdlflags='-DPIC -fPIC ', lddlflags='-Bforcearchive -Bshareable -L/usr/local/lib'

  Characteristics of this binary (from libperl)​:
  Compile-time options​:
  Built under openbsd
  Compiled at Dec 11 1999 08​:24​:52
  %ENV​:
  PERL_READLINE_NOWARN="1"
  @​INC​:
  lib
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00563/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00563
  /usr/local/lib/site_perl/5.00563/OpenBSD.i386-openbsd
  /usr/local/lib/site_perl
  .

--tom

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Subject​: Not OK​: perl 5.00561 on i386-openbsd 2.5
BugID : 19990825.002 Status​: open
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Subject​: perl5.05_63 XSLoader failure in File​::Glob on OpenBSD 2.6
BugID : 19991230.001 Status​: open
Created​: 1999-12-30 05​:43​:55 Category​: unknown
Version​: 5 Severity​: medium
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