From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:30:42 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2/RFC] gitweb: Prepare for splitting gitweb
Message-ID: <AANLkTikyxqPHkNnVaN6kLNdbjxl69e_8Yuf1-n7CwnEg@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201007140024.58446.jnareb@gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 22:24, Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:

> I wrote simple script that tests result of __DIR__ and $FindBin::Bin.
> For cgi-bin / mod_cgi it was:
>
>  __DIR__       = /var/www/cgi-bin/gitweb (symlink to /home/local/gitweb)
>  $FindBin::Bin = /home/local/gitweb
>
> For mod_perl (ModPerl::Registry handler) it was
>
>  __DIR__       = /var/www/perl/gitweb (symlink to /home/local/gitweb)
>  $FindBin::Bin = /
>
> As you can see it's useless.  I have't checked the FastCGI case...

Thanks for spending time researching what was an offhand ignorant "hey
wasn't .." comment. Also, sorry :)

But that's very informative. Good to know that FindBin is broken like
that under mod_perl.