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Author: jm
Date: Sun Jan 7 04:38:10 2007
New Revision: 493708

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&rev=493708
Log:
bug 5282: document that PERL5LIB is ignored, due to a feature in taint checking

Modified:
spamassassin/trunk/PACKAGING
spamassassin/trunk/spamassassin.raw

Modified: spamassassin/trunk/PACKAGING
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/PACKAGING?view=diff&rev=493708&r1=493707&r2=493708
==============================================================================
--- spamassassin/trunk/PACKAGING (original)
+++ spamassassin/trunk/PACKAGING Sun Jan 7 04:38:10 2007
@@ -307,7 +307,9 @@
export PERL5LIB="/tmp/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.16/lib:$PERL5LIB"

4. Now build SpamAssassin. As long as the PERL5LIB variable is set, the
- updated ExtUtils::MakeMaker is used.
+ updated ExtUtils::MakeMaker is used. (SpamAssassin will use PERL5LIB
+ during building, but the built scripts ignore it due to taint-mode
+ security features.)


Obsolete Variables

Modified: spamassassin/trunk/spamassassin.raw
URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/spamassassin/trunk/spamassassin.raw?view=diff&rev=493708&r1=493707&r2=493708
==============================================================================
--- spamassassin/trunk/spamassassin.raw (original)
+++ spamassassin/trunk/spamassassin.raw Sun Jan 7 04:38:10 2007
@@ -739,6 +739,10 @@
Install this as a normal Perl module, using C<perl -MCPAN -e shell>, or by
hand.

+Note that it is not possible to use the C<PERL5LIB> environment variable
+to affect where SpamAssassin finds its perl modules, due to limitations
+imposed by perl's "taint" security checks.
+
For further details on how to install, please read the C<INSTALL> file
from the SpamAssassin distribution.