On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Nicholas Clark <n...@ccl4.org> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:00:23PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 11:24:24AM +0000, Nicholas Clark wrote: >> > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:44:57AM -0800, macke...@animalhead.com wrote: >> > > $^X is simpler, and simpler solutions are preferable. >> > > Can it be wrong? >> > Yes. >> > For starters, it may be a relative path, and the program has already >> > changed >> > directory. >> >> I'm not sure that this particular reason is true, at least not with >> vaguely modern perls: >> >> $ ../cpantesting/perl-5.8.9/bin/perl -e 'chdir "../tmp" && print "$^X\n"' >> /home/david/cpantesting/perl-5.8.9/bin/perl > > The code to make $^X absolute only works on Linux, FreeBSD with /proc > and Win32 IIRC. It should be possible on Solaris 10, but (to my knowledge) > none of the core committers have access to that to test it.
I didn't really want to enter this discussion, but ... Probe::Perl It's what M::B does internally and it's available without needing to mess with the Module::Build object within one's tests. -- David
