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From:
Dan Sugalski
Date:
April 30, 2001 09:26
Subject:
Re: Relocatable perl
Message ID:
5.0.2.1.0.20010430120759.01fedc28@24.8.96.48
At 05:04 PM 4/30/2001 +0100, Alan Burlison wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > s/perl/perl on Unix/;
> >
> > ;-P (Not that I'd want to point out that we've been doing this on VMS for
> > as long as I've been doing perl. That'd be crass. :)
>
>I stand corrected :-)
>
>So how does it work on VMS then?

All the relocatable parts vector off of a logical PERL_ROOT, and all those 
#defined locations start out something like "PERL_ROOT:[". It's essentially 
the same as having perl work off an environment variable, except I can set 
the variable once per system boot and protect it well enough that perl can 
trust that someone with "nuke the system" privs set it up in case we're 
worried about spoofing security.  The Unix equivalent would be to root the 
libraries with "${PERL_ROOT}/" more or less. (Modulo actually correct shell 
env variable syntax... :)

We don't go quite as far as having the perl executable actually figure out 
its current location and set PERL_ROOT at runtime--we could but it'd make 
linking in the shared-library part of perl (which is also located relative 
to PERL_ROOT) a bit more of a pain. We'd have to do the equivalent of 
dlopen()ing it, rather than have the image activator go find it for us at 
image start time.

					Dan

--------------------------------------"it's like this"-------------------
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