On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 01:43:35PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In the perl guts it might be possible to make @INC
> a bit more flexible. Among other things the port
> to Windows allocates more than enough memory for
> the "fixed" char strings to allow for relocating
> a perl installation in such a way that perl.exe
> on Windows can re-init it's @INC every time it is
> run.
Uhhhh. *blank look* I think you're talking to the wrong guy.
> VMS does not need to participate in any of this.
> Since @INC is written in terms of a rooted logical
> name (unless you really edit your config.sh that is)
> it has no need to have an installprefix, but if
> it helps you avoid calling C<defined($Config{'installprefix'}>
> from within perl then we could add the redundant info
> to the VMS configure process. Of course we'll pay
> the penalty of bigger files and longer load times,
> but it is only a small handful of redundant variables
> used to appease unix - isn't it?
All I know is $Config{installprefix} is where perl got installed and
$Config{installsiteprefix} is where additional CPAN modules get
installed. Unless I'm misinterpreting the Config.pm docs, which is
entirely possible.
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