[Catalyst] home dir set to /home/MyApp/lib/MyApp

[Jochen Luig]

Hi,

I encountered some strange behaviour in my Catalyst App regarding 
determination of the home directory.
The App is the result of an attempt to manually merge two apps which I 
know is error-prone in the first place but I can't help it at the 
moment. And because the error I encountered seems to happen early in the 
initialization cycle I think it may be resolvable.
The two Apps as well as the resulting App run with mod_perl but the 
behavior is the same when starting the App with the test server via 
script/myapp_server.pl.
So I created a directory /home/MyTest on the server and put the Modules 
in there in accordance to the Catalyst directory structure.
Now Catalyst sets the home directory to /home/MyTest/lib/MyApp instead 
of the expected /home/MyTest. As a quick fix I tried to use the -Home 
flag as follows:

use Catalyst qw/-Debug
                -Home=/home/MyTest
                # Plugins below


               /;

which yielded a syntax error (did I misunderstand something in "perldoc 
Catalyst"?). I then set the environment variable MYAPP_HOME to 
/home/MyTest which was simply ignored by Catalyst. As a last resort I 
suspected it had to do with my home directory being /home/MyTest instead 
of /home/MyApp, so I put a symbolic link "MyApp" into /home/Testdir/ 
that points to /home/MyTest/ and changed the mod_perl configuration 
accordingly to no effect.
As the configuration was simply copied from one of the old Apps and both 
set the home directory as expected, I thought the new App wouldn't go 
haywire at this point.

Are there any docs that are more verbose about the initialization than 
Catalyst::Manual::Internals that I haven't found yet (apart from digging 
through the source)?
Do you have any ideas why this might happen?

Thanks,

Jochen