On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 07:56:57PM +0100, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Wed, 01 Mar 2017 19:45:08 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > I think it would be more useful to skip > > /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.2/ > > and proceed with the next directory, rather than fail. > > (Niko and Dom know more about this but for a starter:) > > This was a deliberate upstream change made in 2012 and released in > 2013 with the 5.18 release: > > https://metacpan.org/pod/release/RJBS/perl-5.18.0/pod/perldelta.pod#require-dies-for-unreadable-files > > require dies for unreadable files > > When require encounters an unreadable file, it now dies. It used to > ignore the file and continue searching the directories in @INC > [perl #113422]. > > The referenced upstream bug is > https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=113422
This is a bit different. In my case, /usr/local/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/perl/5.20.2/strict.pm does not exist at all. A consequence of this is that it is only possible to add a directory to the global @INC if it is world-accessible, which is a major interface change. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
