Bug 80466 – patch RT-3.2.1 to modify @INC

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE

[Description Eric Brown 2005-02-02 07:27:39 UTC]

mod_perl seems to have a wacky @INC order.  Nicholas Vinen recommended the following solution in getting RT to work properly in this environment.  Not only does his patch avoid the problem, but it is a better workaround than the recommended way of deleting the default QuotedPrint.pm that comes with perl (as recommended in the gentoo install guide on wiki.bestpractical.com).

I think we should submit a patch to RT in gentoo and keep it until the mod_perl @INC bug is fixed (it has been around for a while,  and it doesn't look like it's about to be resolved).

Anyway, here's what he posted in another bug (i tried it and it works):



------- Additional Comment #5 From Nicholas Vinen  2005-02-01 12:30 PST -------

I have a highly customised installation but here is what I do (it's a bit hacky).

Edit RT's "webmux.pl" in the bin directory. (/usr/bin/webmux.pl)
Inside the topmost BEGIN { block, add something like the following:

    @INC = ('/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5/i686-linux',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.5',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.2',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5',
            '/usr/local/lib/site_perl',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2/i686-linux',
            '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.2',
            '.',
            '/etc/apache/',
            '/etc/apache/lib/perl');

of course 5.8.5, 5.8.2 etc. depend upon your perl version. The easiest way to generate the correct list is to run a small perl script on the shell. something like:

perl -e 'print join("\n",@INC)'

And then stick the apache paths on the end. This overrides the built in path and allows it to work. Hope that helps as a work-around for now.


Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Carsten Lohrke (RETIRED) 2005-02-02 08:12:39 UTC]

did you run the perl-cleaner after updating perl?

[Comment 2 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2005-02-06 05:29:14 UTC]

perl-cleaner isn't relevant here. Looking for the other bug to mark this a dup of...

[Comment 3 Michael Cummings (RETIRED) 2005-02-06 05:29:56 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 69671 ***