Re: Building mod-perl 2 for cygwin: taint cleanup

[Stas Bekman <st...@stason.org>]

[splitting the thread in two]

Stas Bekman wrote:
> Steve Baldwin wrote:
> 
>> I've got Apache2 installed and as far as I can tell, it is functional.
>> I'm trying to build mod-perl from source (as I couldn't find any
>> binaries for cygwin).  When I initially ran the command :
>>
>> perl Makefile.PL MP_AP_PREFIX=/usr/local/apache2
>>
>> I got errors telling me it couldn't find "cygdb-3.1.dll", which I
>> eventually tracked down to Apache::TextConfig::open_cmd.  I commented
>> out the line :
>>
>> local @ENV{ qw(PATH IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV) };
>>
>> and the errors went away (it was clearing $ENV{PATH} which I think was
>> causing the error).  
> 
> 
> We need to explicitly set $ENV{PATH} to be able to start a process under 
> -T (see perlsec). We could hardcode the path of the value, but that 
> would be different for each platform. What the normal value of PATH on 
> your system? Is this something standard that other cygwin users can rely 
> on?

this issue needs to be resolved as well. can you follow up on this?

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