-=| Dominic Hargreaves, 19.01.2012 20:34:57 +0000 |=- > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 07:04:23PM +0100, Marc Lehmann wrote: > > Neither perl, perl-base nor perl-moduels contain the .packlist file that is > > part > > of a standard perl installation. > > > > This file is needed when programs want to know which files belong to the > > perl core, and which don't. > > Can you give an example of a program which uses it like this? > > > To reproduce, use: > > > > perl -e 'do ".packlist"' > > > > on a working perl, this should cause lots of compiletime errors (Bareword > > missing...) because the .packlist file is not valid perl. > > This isn't a great test case.
Trying to guess what the real use case is, here's a one-liner that
seems to not work as one would expect:
perl -MExtUtils::Installed -we' print
ExtUtils::Installed->version("Module::CoreList");'
Apart of taking several minutes of disk juggling to finish, it concludes
that "Module::CoreList is not installed", which is an outright lie :)
Of course, there is another way to get the module version (require
Module::CoreList; print $Module::CoreList::VERSION), which for some
reason is not usable to ExtUtils::Installed.
Maybe this gives a clue to somebody.
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