[rt.cpan.org #81375] chdir without cc

Tue Nov 27 06:37:04 2012: Request 81375 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by SISYPHUS
       Queue: Inline
     Subject: chdir without cc
   Broken in: 0.50
    Severity: Normal
       Owner: Nobody
  Requestors: [email protected]
      Status: open
 Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=81375 >


On Mon Nov 26 21:03:00 2012, [email protected] wrote:
> I vote for David,  It's a bug from chdir other than Inline.

File::chdir certainly provides an elegant solution to the problem, but
I'll stick with using the eval{} safety net, for the moment at least.
I'm not really all that keen to introduce a new dependency just to save
a couple of lines of code.

I do think it's an Inline::C bug.
Admittedly, it's a bit unusual to want to safeguard Inline::C code
against the absence of a C compiler (or of a missing make utility or of
uncompilable code, etc.), but I think one is entitled to do that. And if
one wants to do that by using eval{} (as the OP does), then one has
every right to expect that the script will return to the *original* cwd
if $@ gets set.
I think chdir() is behaving as it should. If we want to claim that it's
not an Inline::C bug, then we would have to argue that the OP is doing
something that's not allowed. (But of course, IMO, he isn't doing
anything wrong.)

Cheers,
Rob