Hello,

You are very right Anoymous.

And I can accept the point of view that perl interpreter flags should not be controlled from perl source.

Actually I can imagine that there can be another kind of perl interpreter that can have the different flags an/or not to be a binary at all (e. g., a binary library) and it may not accept namely the -I flag.

But I think the task is quite straightforward to take those condireations not as seriously as I can.

It's all just about to run the binary from make test or prove.

I believe it's not a problem for you to suggest another way to supply the libraries path for perl binary to run from tests, if you have any.

Thank you.

The purpose of -I is to populate @INC

You don't need the original -I flags, you have @INC

But @INC can be altered at run time. Consider that your default @INC is just:

/eg/lib
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You run perl -I/eg/custom myscript.pl.

Now @INC is:</c>

/eg/custom
/eg/lib
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Imagine that myscript.pl contains use mylibs which loads /eg/custom/mylibs.pm. This module itself tinkers with @INC at run-time, adding another path at the front.

/corporate/lib
/eg/custom
/eg/lib
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Now you want to launch another Perl process via system(), so what do you do? Something like:

my @incs = map { "-I$_" } @INC;
system($^X, @incs, 'other-script.pl');
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So when the other script starts, it will start with this in @INC:

/corporate/lib
/eg/custom
/eg/lib
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Now let's imagine that other-script.pl also does use mylibs. Rather than that loading /eg/custom/mylibs.pm, it might now load /corporate/lib/mylibs.pm, which is perhaps an older version of the mylibs package which behaves differently to how we wanted.

Granted this is a rare situation, but there do exist packages along these lines; packages that exist entirely to manipulate @INC, such as local::lib. Combining these libraries with system($^X) can get you into a merry little pickle.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'