On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 09:39 AM, Stephen Zander wrote:
>>>>>> "Sam" == Sam Vilain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sam> Hi all, How do you return the name of perl in your module's
> Sam> Makefile.PL?
>
> If you're generating rules for the Makfile that will be produced,
> don't try to hardcode perl at all. Rather use the PERL Makefile
> variable that MakeMaker has already gone to great pains to get right
> for you.
I wouldn't say "right". Note this comment in the EU::MM_Unix source:
# Find Perl 5. The only contract here is that both 'PERL' and
'FULLPERL'
# will be working versions of perl 5.
In other words, it might find the wrong installed binary if you've got
more than one. It does this by searching a list of directories for
executables with any of a list of names, including 'perl'.
A reasonable approach in most situations is this:
use Config;
$perl = -X $^X ? $^X : $Config{perlpath};
You might also want to check whether $^X is an absolute path. Sometimes
it's not, as when a shebang script is run on some systems. This is a
great joy.
-Ken
