[Catalyst] home dir detection problem

Sebastian Riedel sri at oook.de
Mon Nov 7 16:28:49 CET 2005


Am 07.11.2005 um 16:16 schrieb Marcello:

> Hi all,
>
>     While developing a new catalyst app from scratch I found a  
> strange error: home directory autodetection always found /path/to/ 
> MyApp/lib/MyApp instead of /path/to/MyApp
>
> The problem was I didn't use the helper scripts to generate the  
> initial skeleton, so I did not create Makefile.PL nor Build.PL.
> After putting an empty Makefile.PL in /path/to/MyApp home  
> autodetection worked fine again.
> I found this solution reading Catalyst::Util.pm (sub home).
>
> I don't think this is a bug, but I think it might be helpful to  
> mention it in the "solved issues" page on the dev site.

It's no bug, we need some fixed points in the project dir to detect  
if this app was already installed (perl Build install), which results  
in a different home path.


--
sebastian




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