Read a perl's -I flag from perl?

petr999 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello,

I run a perl binary with a perl interpreter from my perl program with system.

Both perl binary I run with system and my perl program that runs it require the library (module) for inclusion. The 'parent' perl source gets it with perl's -I flag. I assume it is always 'all right' and my module is always found.

What I want is to pass that -I flag to the 'child' program as it is/they are specified for the 'parent' program.

I think to formulate this task as 'to get all of the flags supplied for the current Perl interpreter' should be okay as I can get the matching qr{^-I} flags then.

The problem is: how can I get my Perl's interpreter's runtime flags? perlvar was no much help to me. Where should this info be found?

In details, I'd like to test my bin/stuff run from my t/555-test.t. By far the test will be supplied the '-I' flags from both 'prove' and 'make test' as well as need no the '-I' flags after being installed so I'd like to have my '-I' flag for my Perl interpreter to run it in the system() exactly the same as for my test being performed.

Can this be done?

Thank you.

Peter

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Re: Know a perl's -I flag from perl? by tobyink (Canon) on Dec 15, 2012 at 11:10 UTC
Devel::PL_origargv `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply]
Re^2: Know a perl's -I flag from perl? by petr999 (Acolyte) on Dec 15, 2012 at 12:00 UTC
Hello, Pleased! Thanks! will try. Thank you. Peter	[reply]
Re: Know a perl's -I flag from perl? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 15, 2012 at 10:45 UTC
@INC is @INC	[reply]
Re^2: Know a perl's -I flag from perl? by petr999 (Acolyte) on Dec 15, 2012 at 14:27 UTC
Hello, You are very right Anoymous. And I can accept the point of view that perl interpreter flags should not be controlled from perl source. Actually I can imagine that there can be another kind of perl interpreter that can have the different flags an/or not to be a binary at all (e. g., a binary library) and it may not accept namely the `-I` flag. But I think the task is quite straightforward to take those condireations not as seriously as I can. It's all just about to run the binary from `make test` or `prove`. I believe it's not a problem for you to suggest another way to supply the libraries path for perl binary to run from tests, if you have any. Thank you. Peter	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Know a perl's -I flag from perl? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 16, 2012 at 00:21 UTC
The purpose of -I is to populate @INC You don't need the original -I flags, you have @INC	[reply]
Re^4: Know a perl's -I flag from perl? by tobyink (Canon) on Dec 19, 2012 at 14:58 UTC
Re^5: Know a perl's -I flag from perl? by Anonymous Monk on Dec 21, 2012 at 03:59 UTC


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