Item9274: Double slash in path to CPAN/lib

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In a standard foswiki 1.0.9 installation, I find the following paths (among others) in the output of configure under "@INC library path": /path/to/foswiki/lib/CPAN/lib//arch /path/to/foswiki/lib/CPAN/lib//5.10.1/x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi /path/to/foswiki/lib/CPAN/lib//5.10.1 /path/to/foswiki/lib/CPAN/lib/

Clearly, the double slashes after "CPAN/lib" should not be there. Currently, that does not cause any obvious problems, but might under more special circumstances. The problem seems to be the trailing slash in line 55 of /path/to/foswiki/bin/setlib.cfg: $CPANBASE = "$foswikiLibPath/CPAN/lib/" unless $CPANBASE;

If I remove the trailing slash, the problem vanishes. However, I cannot tell if that causes other problems (that I haven't noticed) somewhere else.

-- LutzGehlen - 07 Jul 2010

Confirmed on trunk too. It seems like an easy fix, but maybe someone like GeorgeClark who is more familiar with configure code can make sure.

-- PaulHarvey - 08 Jul 2010

None of our other file system path settings are supposed to include the trailing slash, so I believe that eliminating the trailing slash is probably the correct solution. I'll commit a fix and we can deal with the fallout.

-- GeorgeClark - 11 Jul 2010