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authorBrian Fraser <fraserbn@gmail.com>2014-06-13 00:57:44 +0200
committerBrian Fraser <fraserbn@gmail.com>2014-06-13 00:58:01 +0200
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@@ -757,6 +757,17 @@ this.
Many issues have been detected by L<Coverity|http://www.coverity.com/> and
fixed.
+=item *
+
+system() and friends should now work properly on more Android builds.
+
+Due to an oversight, the value specified through -Dtargetsh to Configure
+would end up being ignored by some of the build process. This caused perls
+cross-compiled for Android to end up with defective versions of system(),
+exec() and backticks: the commands would end up looking for C</bin/sh>
+instead of C</system/bin/sh>, and so would fail for the vast majority
+of devices, leaving C<$!> as C<ENOENT>.
+
=back
=head1 Known Problems