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On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Nicholas Clark wrote: > Yes, I think it's wrong to assume that there is a $PATH perl at all. > > I'm not sure how to remove that assumption on Win32 - I don't know how > process invocation works. I also don't know whether it's viable to simply > invoke a batch script. I'm thinking I'll have to insert debugging statements to see what it is really executing, from where, and what the environment is. Not today, however. %PATH% in Win32 is more or less like $PATH in Unix, except for "." being implicit. > [Mmmm, is that test also assuming that /usr/bin/perl exists on *nix. I wonder > if I can break that assumption] Looks like the test itself tries to use $^X (as $perl) on a prefix call without using the $PATH. -- George GreerThread Previous