---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ron W <ronw.m...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:39 AM Subject: Re: Problem with cache files being deleted To: Shawn Laffan <shawn.laf...@unsw.edu.au>
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:16 AM, Shawn Laffan <shawn.laf...@unsw.edu.au> wrote: > > What I'm thinking of is some way for a PAR executable to detect if extra > files packed using -a are missing, and then unpack them. > I just had a thought for a work-around. When pp script.pl is run, the script is "statically scanned" for dependencies. When pp -c script.pl is run, after the static scan, the script is compiled (like perl -c script.pl). I am thinking that %INC is then inspected for additional libraries. So, my idea is, after identifying all the extra files to be included with -a, go back to the main .pl file and add a BEGIN block that adds those library names to %INC. Then run "pp -c main.pl" - without any -a options - then verify the created executable runs correctly. As I said, I see this as a work-around. A better solution would be for pp to save the names of all the files included via -a just as it saves the ones it detects.
