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From:
Alan Burlison
Date:
May 3, 2001 09:38
Subject:
Re: Relocatable perl
Message ID:
3AF188E2.77CB813F@uk.sun.com
Graham Barr wrote:

> > That's fine, however it is a different mechanism to that used on Solaris
> > (and VMS, and Win32...)  Rather than perpetuating a series of
> > platform-spefific hacks it would be preferable to have a generic
> > get_exe_path() function and then to do all the other path fixups in a
> 
> Do we not have that already ? How is $^X set

No, that's just set from argv[0] AFAIK.  We need the full path of the
executable, even when accessed via a symlink.

Alan Burlison

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