relocatable perl, again (was Re: kpathsea)

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Dan Sugalski <[email protected]> wrote:
> At 03:25 PM 8/4/00 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> >Simon Cozens <[email protected]> writes:
> >
> > > Sounds good. Here's a slight modification: perllib.db is a cache;
> > > lookups take place as normal, but then any new information is written
> > > into the cache.  The cache is invalided every $configurable period.
> >
> >Putting on my sysadmin hat, anything that a program wants to modify during
> >its normal course of operation and isn't a dotfile in the user's home
> >directory is inherently Evil and not to be tolerated if at all possible.
> 
> I fully agree. Not that I dislike the idea of figuring out file locations 
> at module install time instead of runtime, mind--I rather like that. (Do 
> the work once, rather than every darned time) make install, however, should 
> be the only thing that messes with these files.

How tough would this be?

    # perl -MPerl::Mover -e 'copyperl "/home/me/local"'

Perl/Mover.pm does whatever's needed regarding binedits, relinking,
and whatnot.  Would this allow us to remove the discussion from
internals, at least?

-John

-- 
John Tobey, late nite hacker <[email protected]>
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