Re: Is Repository broken? (actually ActivePerl 5.6.1)

[Gary Oberbrunner]

Johan Holmberg wrote:


> You can't expect things to work unless you understand the quoting
> issues of all involved programs.
>
> The simplest way to achieve this, I think is to avoid "cmd.exe"
> (ie. BAT-files) altogether.

Slightly off topic: I just moved to ActiveState perl 5.6.1, and it 
behaves somewhat differently from previous versions with respect to 
perl's system() command.  Specifically, if you have redirection (and 
maybe quoting, not sure) in the command, perl invokes cmd.exe using your 
$ENV->{PATH} to find it.  So you now need /windows/system32 in the path, 
 where you didn't before.  The error message is very obscure.

(I think if you set PERL5SHELL it uses that instead of cmd.exe, but I 
haven't tried that.)

The reason this is relevant is because you may be using cmd.exe even 
when you don't think you are.

-- Gary Oberbrunner