Active Perl 5.6.1 build 631 problem with cons?

[Gary Oberbrunner]

I just tried installing ActiveState perl 5.6.1, build 631, and it seems 
to have fundamental problems when it is called *FROM* cons (not when 
calling or interpreting cons).  For instance, this Construct fails:

%e = new cons()->copy();   $e{ENV}{PATH} = "c:/perl/bin";
$e = new cons(%e);
$e->Command('foo', qq(perl scr.pl > %>));


scr.pl contains:
print "Hello, World!\n";

If I run this using ActiveState Perl 5.6.1 build 631, I get this output:
perl scr.pl > foo
cons: *** [foo] Error 255 (executable not found in path?)
cons: errors constructing foo

But if I switch back to perl 5.6.0, it works fine, no error.

Has anyone else seen this problem?  Anything I can do about it?  I don't 
think, btw, that the error message "executable not found in path" is 
correct.  I think somehow the system() function in 
action::command::win32::do_command is failing for some other reason.

Some commands, in fact most of them, *can* be invoked fine.  There's 
something screwy about system() calling perl itself.


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