conda+perl fails if there is a '@' symbol in the user's path "Possible unintended interpolation "

[lindenb]

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Issue

Hi,
( I was suggested to write a bug report here after bioconda/bioconda-recipes#53152 (comment) )

I'm working on a server where the PATH, sadly, contains my email:

/scratch/nautilus/users/[email protected]/conda

The problem, when I use something perl-related (e.g ensembl-vep=113.3) , this @ in the path is interpreted as a variable by Perl :

Possible unintended interpolation of @univ in string at /scratch/nautilus/users/[email protected]/work/CONDA/env-82b91d6a9278ec46-8fede9d298b4f4134ecc76a43e16cdc6/lib/perl5/5.32/core_perl/Config_heavy.pl line 246.
(...)
Compilation failed in require at /scratch/nautilus/users/[email protected]/work/CONDA/env-82b91d6a9278ec46-8fede9d298b4f4134ecc76a43e16cdc6/lib/perl5/5.32/core_perl/Config.pm line 105.
(...)

line 246 of Config_heavy.pl is:

ccdlflags='-Wl,-E -Wl,-rpath,/scratch/nautilus/users/[email protected]/work/...'

Is there any way to escape this '@' in the string before compiling ?

related issues:

• "@" symbol in directory path results in syntax error in Config_heavy.pl Perl/perl5#22446
• "@" symbol in directory path results in error connected to Config_heavy.pl BenLangmead/bowtie2#483
• Ensembl/VEP: error when there is a '@' in the path  bioconda/bioconda-recipes#53152
• VEP (+conda ?) fails when there is a '@' in the path. Ensembl/ensembl-vep#1824

Installed packages

dependencies:
  - bioconda::bcftools=1.21
  - bioconda::ensembl-vep=113.3

Environment info

active environment : None
            shell level : 0
       user config file : /home/[email protected]/.condarc
 populated config files : /home/[email protected]/.condarc
          conda version : 23.11.0
    conda-build version : not installed
         python version : 3.11.5.final.0
                 solver : libmamba (default)
       virtual packages : __archspec=1=zen4
                          __conda=23.11.0=0
                          __glibc=2.28=0
                          __linux=4.18.0=0
                          __unix=0=0
       base environment : /home/[email protected]/packages/miniconda3  (writable)
      conda av data dir : /home/[email protected]/packages/miniconda3/etc/conda
  conda av metadata url : None
           channel URLs : https://conda.anaconda.org/bioconda/linux-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/bioconda/noarch
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/linux-64
                          https://conda.anaconda.org/conda-forge/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/main/noarch
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/linux-64
                          https://repo.anaconda.com/pkgs/r/noarch
          package cache : /home/[email protected]/packages/miniconda3/pkgs
                          /home/[email protected]/.conda/pkgs
       envs directories : /home/[email protected]/packages/miniconda3/envs
                          /home/[email protected]/.conda/envs
               platform : linux-64
             user-agent : conda/23.11.0 requests/2.31.0 CPython/3.11.5 Linux/4.18.0-425.19.2.el8_7.x86_64 rhel/8.7 glibc/2.28 solver/libmamba conda-libmamba-solver/23.12.0 libmambapy/1.5.3
                UID:GID : 8000149:8000149
             netrc file : None
           offline mode : False