Modperl fails to load modules from <znc dir>/modules/ when using -d option to znc with relative path #237

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2026-10-05T04:07:06+02:00

adam commented

2026-10-05 04:07:06 +02:00

znc -d znc-conf doesn't work.
znc -d ./znc-conf works.
znc -d ~/znc-conf works.

How to reproduce: just put some perl module to znc-conf/modules/ and try to load it

Possible fix: call realpath() on ZNC startup to make the path absolute

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Reference: adam/znc#237