The following reply was made to PR pkg/32812; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Anne Bennett <anne@porcupine.montreal.qc.ca>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/32812: Perl broken in 2005Q4: open with shell metas fails
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 19:02:02 -0500

 > ... but this has no effect on my little test, so the vendor patch
 >  is not the cause of the shell metacharacter problem.
 [...]
 > At the moment, it looks as though the
 > newly-installed perl works until I do "make clean" in the source
 > tree, and then it starts failing.  There must be some unexpected
 > dependency, or I'm not testing properly.  I'll have to try to trace it.
 
     # head -1 /tmp/minitest
     #!/usr/bin/perl -wT
 
     # /local/bin/perl -wT /tmp/minitest 
     Issuing: echo foo ; echo moo
     line: foo
     line: moo
 
     # /usr/bin/perl -wT /tmp/minitest 
     Issuing: echo foo ; echo moo
     Error closing:  at /tmp/minitest line 13.
 
     # cd /usr/pkgsrc/lang/perl5 && make
     [copious output not shown; note that I did *not* install]
 
     # /usr/bin/perl -wT /tmp/minitest
     Issuing: echo foo ; echo moo
     line: foo
     line: moo
 
     [is that weird or what?!?]
 
     # script /tmp/trace.out
     # ktruss -d -i /usr/bin/perl -wT /tmp/minitest
     # exit
 
     The trace file contains:
     16576 sh execve("/disks/nobak/netbsd/netbsd-3.0/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/work/.tools/bin/sh", 0x7f7fffffdeb0, 0x512200) JUSTRETURN
 
     And a trace on an unsuccessful process (in the absence of the
     source tree) shows:
 
     25989 perl execve("/disks/nobak/netbsd/netbsd-3.0/pkgsrc/lang/perl5/work/.tools/bin/sh", 0x7f7fffffdeb0, 0x512200) Err#2 ENOENT
 
 Well, now I know what the problem is, but how on *earth* did Perl
 manage to persuade itself to use *that* file as a the execution shell???
 
 I'll see if I can find anything in the build transcript.  I'm in a
 maze of twisty little configuration definitions, all different.  :-/
 
 
 Anne.
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