No. It's conveniently possible under Windows to get at the path where your executable lives in. ActiveState does patch some modules upon installation, I believe, but patching the Perl.exe executable is not necessary, as long as the relative position of files remains the same.

C:\Programme\Perl\bin>perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.3 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread
(with 8 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail)

Copyright 1987-2003, Larry Wall

Binary build 809 provided by ActiveState Corp. http://www.ActiveState.
+com
ActiveState is a division of Sophos.
Built Feb  3 2004 00:28:51

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using `man perl' or `perldoc perl'.  If you have access to
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Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Pa
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C:\Programme\Perl\bin>.\perl.exe -e die@INC
C:/Programme/Perl/libC:/Programme/Perl/site/lib. at -e line 1.

C:\Programme\Perl\bin>Q:
Q:\>cd tmp_perl
Q:\tmp_perl>xcopy /s C:\Programme\Perl .
...
Q:\tmp_perl>cd bin
Q:\tmp_perl\bin>.\perl -e die@INC
Q:/tmp_perl/libQ:/tmp_perl/site/lib. at -e line 1.

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Update:See the below response - Config.pm of course does not reflect the new directory and thus needs to be patched.

In reply to Re^4: Perl Grant Approved: Improve Perl 5 by Corion
in thread Perl Grant Approved: Improve Perl 5 by Ovid

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