[Module-build-general] Re: [PATCH] allow multiple perls by trusting $^X

[Ken W. <ke...@ma...>]

On Wednesday, February 26, 2003, at 09:59  AM, Nicholas Clark wrote to 
the Inline list:

> As promised, er, a few months ago, here is a patch that makes Inline
> work reliably when there is more than one perl installed, and all 
> *think*
> that they are (say) /usr/local/bin/perl

You mean that all of them have /usr/local/bin/perl as 
$Config{perlpath}, or that somehow symlinks or shebang paths are giving 
them that impression?


> With this Inline will "believe" $^X in preference to $Config{perlpath}
> if $^X is an absolute path, so that Inline will get the same perl as is
> running the script, despite the sysadmin's best efforts to confuse 
> things
> by installing more perl versions.

I'm interested in getting this right for Module::Build too.  This seems 
like a reasonable approach to take.  I think the big problem with $^X 
is that it can sometimes be set to just "perl" or something in shebang 
scripts, so checking for an absolute path seems like a good way to go.  
Thanks.

  -Ken