id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	severity	resolution	keywords	cc	lang	patch	platform
555	perldoc detection fails if build runs as root	heidnes		"If you build parrot as root, the detection of perldoc
will always fail.  The reason is that perldoc for security
reasons runs as either 'nobody', 'nouser' or uid -2.
Therefore, it cannot write to a file given as the argument
to perldoc's -d option, when that file is created by File::Temp,
since it's owned by root and has mode 0600.

It also appears to me that the first part of the perldoc
test is ... a little sketchy in how it should behave?
capture_output doesn't collect STDERR output, it captures
STDOUT output.

I know, using > instead of perldoc's -d option is possibly
port unfriendly to non-Unix systems, so a better way of
testing should probably be found.  In my case, I do this
for only Unix-y systems, so permit myself some leeway here.

Patch to be attached.

Regards,

- Håvard
"	bug	reopened	normal		configure	1.0.0	medium					applied	netbsd