perldoc dies if a stray Makefile.PL is in cwd

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From bgriffin@cddb.com

Created by bgriffin@cddb.com

$ mkdir /tmp/foo $ cd /tmp/foo $ touch Makefile.PL $ perldoc perl Cannot find blib even in /tmp/foo/../../../../.. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 2) line 1.   ...propagated at /usr/bin/perldoc line 165. $

Perl Info

``` Flags: category=utilities severity=medium Site configuration information for perl v5.6.0: Configured by bgriffin at Fri Jul 28 14:55:44 PDT 2000. Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.2.5-15, archname=i686-linux-thread-multi uname='linux bgriffin-unx 2.2.5-15 #1 mon apr 19 23:00:46 edt 1999 i686 unknown ' config_args='' hint=previous, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=define use5005threads=define useithreads=undef usemultiplicity=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=define usesocks=undef Compiler: cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release) cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64' stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='long double', nvsize=12, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8 alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lpthread -lc -lposix -lcrypt libc=/lib/libc-2.1.1.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Locally applied patches: @INC for perl v5.6.0: /home/bgriffin/perl5lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl . Environment for perl v5.6.0: HOME=/home/bgriffin LANG (unset) LANGUAGE (unset) LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset) LOGDIR (unset) PATH=/home/bgriffin/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin PERL5LIB=/home/bgriffin/perl5lib PERL_BADLANG (unset) SHELL=/bin/ksh ```

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From @simoncozens

On Wed\, Dec 13\, 2000 at 05​:16​:44PM -0800\, Benjamin Elijah Griffin wrote​:

$ perldoc perl Cannot find blib even in /tmp/foo/../../../../.. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 2) line 1. ...propagated at /usr/bin/perldoc line 165.

This one's been fixed​:

  # don't add if superuser   if ($\< && $> && -f "blib") { # don't be looking too hard now!   eval q{ use blib; 1 };   warn $@​ if $@​ && $opt_v;   }