creating a relocatable perl?

perl5ever has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm interested in creating a "relocatable" perl binary distribution. The idea is that I would be able to do this:

$ cd /some/random/directory
$ tar zxf relocatable-perl.tgz
(perhaps some configuration commands go here)
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Then running /some/random/directory/bin/perl (and other programs in the bin directory) would work as if perl was built from source using:

./Configure ...  -Dprefix=/some/random/directory
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Is this possible? Is something close to this possible? What are the issues/obstacles?

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Re: creating a relocatable perl? by Eliya (Vicar) on Apr 29, 2011 at 18:29 UTC
Is this possible? Is something close to this possible? Yes, see -Duserelocatableinc.	[reply]