Re^2: system call to pdflatex

the "system" perl call uses / as its working dir, not the working dir of the perl script

Not true. Check

perl -e 'system q{/bin/pwd}'
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Somehow you are setting the script's working directory to /.

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Re^3: system call to pdflatex by Corion (Patriarch) on Nov 24, 2011 at 12:35 UTC
... it may also be that Apache is launching the Perl script with a working directory of `/`.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: system call to pdflatex by choroba (Cardinal) on Nov 24, 2011 at 12:37 UTC
Counts as "somehow" for me :-) Yes, it is highly probable. And it should be configurable, too.	[reply]