Sat Sep 28 06:34:42 2013: Request 89003 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RSCHUPP
Queue: PAR
Subject: PP prepends temp directory to system PATH
Broken in: (no value)
Severity: (no value)
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: [email protected]
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=89003 >
On 2013-09-27 15:22:25, [email protected] wrote:
> When running a windows .EXE created by PP, the $PATH environment
> variable does not accurately reflect the system path which was present
> at the time the EXE was invoked.
That's by design: pp is supposed to produce a "self-contained" executable.
> This can potentially cause problems, if the PERL script packaged in
> the EXE by PP invokes tools or utilities from the system which rely on
> different versions of runtime libraries or packages that are contained
> in the packaged EXE.
Don't do that then.
Cheers, Roderich
