Re: [Module::Build] Test failure, @INC explosion

[David W. <da...@ki...>]

On Nov 29, 2004, at 3:19 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:

> This was never a problem before because @INC was completely duplicated 
> by
> PERL5LIB.  No net effect.  But Fedora Core is one of the first shipped 
> Perls
> to use the new inc_version_list function which cases Perl to 
> desperately
> look for other versions of Perl in *every* directory added to @INC.  
> This
> means every directory in PERL5LIB was expanded to 5 or 6 extra 
> versioned
> directories.

FWIW, I ran into this on my BSD box, where my custom installed Perl was 
running Test::Harness, and the latter was picking up the BSD-installed 
directories for older versions of Perl. It wasn't Fedora core.

Not that it makes much difference; I expect that the fix is the same.

Cheers,

David