in reply to
How is the default @INC constructed?
Improving the perl build system to allow relocation without
requiring recompilation is certainly do-able and is on the
P5P wish list. One way to implement this is to build all executables with dummy and very long paths stuffed into the executable, then write a utility to binary edit them when you move them. Sounds hacky, but in practice it works well and is better than the alternatives.
ActiveState's
reloc_perl utility
is an example of one way to do it.
