I dug a little deeper -- short anwer is that it's not FindBin, but Cwd.

The difference seems to be when FindBin calls Cwd::abs_path(). With an argument as simple as '/tmp/', the older version (2.06 in my case) of Cwd::abs_path will chop the trailing slash, whereas the newer version from FC2 will not (Cwd version 2.12).

So the culprit is Cwd rather than FindBin. I'll leave it to you to find the specific difference in the abs_path behavior (I think you'll see what I mean once you start digging).

Do tell us what you find out.

Matt

In reply to Re^3: FindBin works different on Fedora Core 2? by mojotoad
in thread FindBin works differently on Fedora Core 2? by samtregar

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