Re: [ID 20000330.044] Not OK: perl v5.6.0 on VMS_AXP V7.1

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:58 PM 4/3/00 -0400, Charles Lane wrote:
>Dan Sugalski wrote:
> > At this point I'm thinking we might as well officially make perl_root
> > mandatory. We haven't been able to live without it for ages (if ever) and
> > it's the one thing that makes install on an ODS-2 reasonably flexible,
> > so...
>
>In my mind, the difficulty with @INC, $^X and other "internal to Perl"
>methods is that they too easily run afoul of users messing about or even
>doing sensible things, and generating unexpected side-effects.

Yeah, I agree. And if you embed perl someplace it fails then as well, as 
$^X may have no relationship to where the library is.

I think making PERL_ROOT official and mandatory's the way to go.

                                        Dan

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