Thu Mar 05 11:22:46 2020: Request 132055 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by DBOOK
Queue: PAR-Packer
Subject: PodStrip filter corrupts __FILE__ in modules
Broken in: (no value)
Severity: (no value)
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: db...@cpan.org
Status: open
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=132055 >
On Thu Mar 05 03:31:08 2020, RSCHUPP wrote:
> 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.
FWIW, the distribution that ran into this problem is Mojolicious. It uses the
path to modules to find its bundled resource files in several places.
-Dan
