On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 09:47:47AM -0000, Piyush Shourie wrote: > Since there are enormous users of CPAN Perl as well, I believe there > must be some mechanism available in CPAN Perl to relocate the Perl to a > new location. Please enlighten me about the same.
Nope. Nothing else is currently available. > Also I tried using the reloc_perl script of ActiveState Perl with my > CPAN Perl. The issue that I am encountering is that the relocation is > successful if the destination path is shorter than source path, but in > case destination path is greater than the source path, even though the > Perl is relocated, but the INC path is not updated. As Jos pointed out, this is documented behavior. Its because the tool does a s/// on the perl binary and cannot allocate more space for the path within it. The simple work around, and this is what ActiveState does last I checked, is to simply use a very long source path in /tmp.
