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Commit 6d533621 authored by Aurelien Jarno's avatar Aurelien Jarno
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conform tests: call perl with '-I.'

Historically perl includes the current directory in the module search
path. Over the time this has been considered as a security issue and
the recent vulnerabilities [1] made people to reconsider this behaviour.
It is almost sure that this will be removed in the future [2], possibly
for the 5.26 release, although this is not yet firmly decided.

Debian has decided to backport the patches [3], so the perl binary in
unstable do not have '.' in @INC anymore.

This behaviour is used in the conform perl scripts to include the
GlibcConform module. This patch fixes that by calling perl with '-I.'.
This is not a security issue in this case as make ensures that the
current directory is $(srcdir)/conform/ when the scripts are called.
Passing the full path would do exactly the same.

[1] CVE-2016-1238 CVE-2016-6185
[2] https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=127810
[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2016/08/msg00013.html

Changelog:
	* conform/Makefile (conformtest-header-tests): Pass -I. to $(PERL).
	(linknamespace-symlists-tests): Likewise.
	(linknamespace-header-tests): Likewise.
parent ead3cea7
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