Re: [mp1] PERL5LIB handled backwards (mod_perl 1.27+)

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From: Stas Bekman
Subject: Re: [mp1] PERL5LIB handled backwards (mod_perl 1.27+)
Date: 00:47 on 08 Feb 2005

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Gordon Lack wrote:
>    The Changes file notes:
> 
> 
>>PERL5LIB support now properly unshifts paths into @INC rather than push
> 
> 
> (added in 1.27)
> 
>    While it now does unshift rather than push (so the entries end up at
> the front of @INC, not the back) it does so backwards!
> 
>   eg:
> 
>  PerlPassEnv PERL5LIB /dir1:/dir2:/dir3

You mean, PerlSetEnv, don't you? PerlPassEnv doesn't accept values.

> will end up setting @INC to:
> 
>  /dir3
>  /dir2
>  /dir1
>  <previous-@INC>
> 
> (you can see this via Apache::Status)

Sounds right. Did you forget to attach the patch? :)

Though I'm not sure how sensitive that change is. I mean someone who have 
been relying on the current implementation might get bitten by this change.

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