Thu Mar 05 03:31:08 2020: Request 132055 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by RSCHUPP
Queue: PAR-Packer
Subject: PodStrip filter corrupts __FILE__ in modules
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Owner: Nobody
Requestors: db...@cpan.org
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132055 >
On 2020-03-04 18:57:24, DBOOK wrote:
> The filename override causes __FILE__ to then be unusable within the
> module since TestModule.pm is not found within cwd.
Don't do that then.
And yes, there are modules that behave differently when run from a packed
executable.
PAR/Filter/PatchContent.pm contains workarounds for the known ones.
> I wonder why this filter overrides the filename at all. It should be
> able to set line numbers and omit the filename.
My guess is that the filename is for the benefit of the "embedded files"
(cf.
https://metacpan.org/pod/distribution/PAR/lib/PAR/Tutorial.pod#Anatomy-of-a-Self-Contained-PAR-executable)
as these are extracted with mangled names like "776cb274.pm". Hence any runtime
diagnostic messages originating from one of these modules would be pretty
useless.
Cheers, Roderich
