The current shipment of ActiveState (build 626) looks in HKLM\Software\Perl for values named PERL5OPT, PERL5LIB, PERLLIB, lib-5.6.1, lib, sitelib-5.6.1, and sitelib.

It also opens HKCU\Software\Perl many times, but doesn't check any values contained in it. Perhaps it only checks the Current User if it found something under Local Machine, but that seems a strange thing to do. It could just be buggy.

It does look at the location of the currently-run exe file, too, if it's in a /bin/ subdirectory (but not otherwise) and if the generated names actually exist.

—John

In reply to Re: (tye)Re: Can @INC be modified using environment variables in Win? by John M. Dlugosz
in thread ADD PATH TO @INC by athar-qadri

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