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Re: perlrebase, is there no better way?
- From: Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>
- To: rkitover at cpan dot org, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 01:42:54 -0600
- Subject: Re: perlrebase, is there no better way?
- References: <4EFBACC9.7090804@cpan.org>
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Rafael Kitover <rkitover@cpan.org> wrote:
> perlrebase is great, but it has some shortcomings.
>
> You often have to break out of a cpan install and run it then continue,
> then break out again, etc. to install some modules.
>
> It doesn't automatically detect local::lib and perlbrew libs (perhaps I
> can patch it for that.) Maybe support for a list of other dirs in
> ~/.perlrebase would be good.
>
> What if ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build, in the code for the .dll
> link stage, would automatically rebase the resulting .dll to some
> address as set in /etc/perlrebase.conf?
Sure. That's the plan for the upcoming 5.14.2 release.
We have a global rebase database now so it's even fast.
It just is not stable enough, and my win PC broke down.
> Reini, what do you think?
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