Monks, I'm stumped. I'm porting Krang to Fedora Core 2 and I've run into some strange behavior from FindBin. Specifically, FindBin is returning paths ending in '/' on Fedora Core 2, something it doesn't do anywhere else, including Fedora Core 1, FreeBSD, Redhat, etc. The versions of Perl are the same (5.8.3) as are the versions of FindBin (1.44). To demonstrate, here's my test.pl: 

  use FindBin qw($RealBin);
  print "I am here: $RealBin\n";

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And here it is running Fedora Core 1: 

  $ perl5.8.3 test.pl
  I am here: /home/krang

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And here's Fedora Core 2, showing the rogue slash: 

  $ perl5.8.3 test.pl
  I am here: /home/krang/

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Does anyone know what's going on here? I'm sure I can fix the code that's choking on the trailing slash, but I'd still like to know what's causing this difference in behavior.

-sam

In reply to FindBin works differently on Fedora Core 2? by samtregar

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