[ic] Strange behavior with [timed-build auto=1]

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Marty Tennison (marty at sediva.com):
> IC=5.0
> perl=5.8 (no threads)
> DB=mysql
> 
> I've been working with [timed-build] lately and I *think* I have found a
> strange behavior when auto=1 is set.  I've recreated this behavior on
> the demo site also.
> 
> I am unable to get the [timed-build auto=1 force=1] tag to create a file
> in the tmp/auto-timed directory.  
> 
> When I use the [timed-build] tag alone, it successfully creates a file
> in the CATROOT/timed directory.  When I supply a file="<filename>"
> parameter, it successfully creates a file.  However, when I use the
> auto=1 option, no file is created.  
> 
> So, to recreate the problem I uploaded a new help.html file to the demo
> site with these contents appended to the file.
> 
> [timed-build auto=1 force=1] 
> test test test
> [/timed-build]
> 
> I loaded help.html in another browser window, then navigated to the
> auto-timed directory.  No file was created in auto-timed.  Then I
> changed the time-build tag to set a file name.
> 
> [timed-build file="tmp/auto-timed/test.txt" force=1] 
> test test test
> [/timed-build]
> 
> 
> I loaded help.html in another browser window, then navigated to the
> auto-timed directory.  The file was there.  
> 
> I'm probably missing something, but I sure don't know what it is.  Any
> help is appreciated.  Thanks in advance. 

It's a bug. Try this patch (may not be exact since your version is
a bit outdated):

Index: Interpolate.pm
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/interchange/lib/Vend/Interpolate.pm,v
retrieving revision 2.212
diff -u -r2.212 Interpolate.pm
--- Interpolate.pm	28 Jun 2004 21:37:50 -0000	2.212
+++ Interpolate.pm	7 Jul 2004 17:05:37 -0000
@@ -5355,6 +5355,7 @@
 
 	my $secs;
 	CHECKDIR: {
+		last CHECKDIR if Vend::File::file_name_is_absolute($file);
 		last CHECKDIR if $file and $file !~ m:/:;
 		my $dir;
 		if ($file) {

I have committed this to both stable and devel -- thanks for finding
it!

-- 
Mike Heins
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