arla 0.35.3 on FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE gets confused about which volumeit's in

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

I've spent the past two days being frustrated by what appears to be 
confusion on the part of Arla.

I've been attempting to rebuild all of our Perl module collections to weed 
out conflicting files.  On FreeBSD this has resulted in strange behavior:

- make consistently cannot determine the current directory;

- eventually MakeMaker starts complaining about being unable to create 
MakeMaker.tmp in a directory in the read-only volume (note that earlier 
invocations correctly use the read/write volume);

- and, perhaps the oddest, occasionally instead of the read/write volume, 
it'll use a path in some other random volume (the one containing my home 
directory seems popular, possibly because I've been purging the cache 
between build attempts so only the project volume and my home volume are in 
the cache).

I killed and restarted arlad with -C but it doesn't seem to complain about 
anything.

Suggestions on how to debug this?

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