Re: AutoLoader and '+~'

I think I figured it out.  expand_path uses the perl function getlogin() 
to expand the username.  getlogin is not guaranteed to return true, and 
this depends on the system.  So on some systems (mine, for example), we 
need to use getpwuid instead.  It's an easy patch, I'll do it tonight.
Derek

Derek Lamb wrote:

> Today I noticed that on my Linux work computers running Perl 5.8.5 and 
> 5.8.6, the following produced a listing of the subdirectories of my 
> home directory:
> $ perl -e 'use PDL::AutoLoader; print join " ", 
> PDL::AutoLoader::expand_path("+~");'
> But on my Linux home computer running Perl 5.8.8, it produced no 
> output.  Manually substituting /home/derek for the ~ produced the 
> desired output.  Why would tilde expansion work on one system and not 
> another?  All machines are running PDL 2.4.3.  I looked through the 
> "man perldelta"s and found no incompatibility changes.  '$ cd ~' works 
> from within my bash shell, so I don't think that's an issue.  I don't 
> think it's a PDL issue, but rather think that it has to do with my 
> local configuration (which isn't tweaked in any way from the stock 
> Mandriva configuration).  Any ideas?
> thanks,
> Derek
>
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