How to create relocatable perl 5.20.1 ?

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Re: How to create relocatable perl 5.20.1 ? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 26, 2014 at 00:27 UTC
Do you actually need a relocatable `perl`, or do you simply want to install Perl somewhere other than the default? On a Linux box (which you appear to be using), the latter is trivial using `perlbrew`, or even manually. `curl -L http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SH/SHAY/perl-5.20.1.t +ar.gz \| tar xz cd perl-5.20.1 . Configure -des -Dusethreads -Dprefix="$HOME/perl" make make test make install` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: How to create relocatable perl 5.20.1 ? ( Portable.pm) by Anonymous Monk on Sep 26, 2014 at 00:26 UTC
I think you need to load Portable.pm FWIW, IIRC, "relocatable perl" means @INC gets automatically updated, @INC is relative to $^X ... @INC not all of %Config Moving the perl always mean %Config had to be updated ... Portable does that updating on the fly citrusperl provides a relocateperl which updates %Config permanently activestate provides a Installer.bat Strawberryperl just does it with Portable (there is a chance there is an updated but who cares :)	[reply]
Re^2: How to create relocatable perl 5.20.1 ? ( Portable.pm) by szabgab (Priest) on Sep 26, 2014 at 06:29 UTC
Some excellent pointers there. thanks! The Portable.pm is not really what I want here as that would require the users to change their code but I just found an old e-mail thread with kmx in which we talked about this issue. So maybe I misunderstand what Portable does. The relocateperl of Citrusperl might do what I need here, but it is written in C and I could not find its source yet.	[reply]
Re^3: How to create relocatable perl 5.20.1 ? ( reloc_perl) by Anonymous Monk on Sep 26, 2014 at 07:34 UTC
Did you read what you linked says? http://dwimperl.com/linux.html says perl dwimperl-linux-5.20.1-2-x86_64/perl/bin/reloc_perl dwimperl-linux-5.20.1-2-x86_64/perl/bin/ so why don't you do that, why don't you use https://github.com/dwimperl/dwimperl-linux/blob/master/src/reloc_perl? Read more... (2 kB)	[reply]
Re^4: How to create relocatable perl 5.20.1 ? ( reloc_perl) by Anonymous Monk on Sep 26, 2014 at 07:42 UTC
Re: How to create relocatable perl 5.20.1 ? by CountZero (Bishop) on Sep 26, 2014 at 08:09 UTC
Strawberry Perl has several portable zip editions which you can load on a USB-stick or save anywhere on your hard-drive. Their website says: you can move/rename the perl directory and it will still work. Is that what you want to do? CountZero A program should be light and agile, its subroutines connected like a string of pearls. The spirit and intent of the program should be retained throughout. There should be neither too little or too much, neither needless loops nor useless variables, neither lack of structure nor overwhelming rigidity." - The Tao of Programming, 4.1 - Geoffrey James My blog: Imperial Deltronics	[reply]
Re^2: How to create relocatable perl 5.20.1 ? by Anonymous Monk on Sep 26, 2014 at 08:12 UTC
szabgab is trying to improve http://dwimperl.com/linux.html which he maintains :)	[reply]


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