Looks like a solution for this problem as well, right? http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.par/2009/05/msg4070.html
I'll do some testing and let you know. Just in case anyone else might be interested in this too. Regards Mario Am Sonntag, den 19.07.2009, 19:03 +0200 schrieb Steffen Mueller: > Dear PAR folks, > > a while ago, when I was trying to fix an issue with > PAR::Repository::Client "fallback" loading of shared libraries, I > entirely broke the shared library handling of PAR::Packer trunk. After a > very long debugging session this afternoon, it turns out that, as usual, > the bug is a trivial one. I'm glad I could finally fix this, as there > are other things waiting in the pipeline... > > One of those is merging Christoph's work on dependency caching into the > main PAR::Packer release. This isn't done yet because it was blocking on > my finishing the *other* significant feature, which in turn was blocking > on the aforementioned bug. > > The big news is that you can now use PAR-generated executables to run > arbitrary external Perl programs as if they were part of the package. If > that sounds to you like a glaring hole with respect to security, then > rest assured that one has to enable the feature manually during packaging: > > pp --reusable -o myapp myapp.pl > > # works normally > ./myapp > > # runs otherapp.pl with the library that myapp.pl uses > ./myapp --par-options --reuse otherapp.pl > > The main reason for this feature is that it's rather common for programs > written in Perl to expect a perl installation to be available. Using the > new feature, it's possible to work around that. > > If you wonder why the command line to run another app looks that > obscure, then think twice under which circumstances you would want to do > that... Yes, exactly my thought: Obscure it should be. > > I've uploaded a developer release of PAR::Packer (0.992_01) to PAUSE. It > should propagate to your mirrors soon. I'd very much appreciate test > reports. (Until it hits your mirror, you can fetch it and the > corresponding PAR release from > http://steffen-mueller.net/tmp/PAR-Packer-0.992_01.tar.gz > http://steffen-mueller.net/tmp/PAR-0.993.tar.gz ) > > Cheers, > Steffen
