Greetings Monks,

I was playing around with the source files of perl, downloaded from CPAN. After building a local copy of the interpreter (using ./Configure, make, make-test, make install), I was curious to find which source files actually went into the build itself.

I do not want the files that were provided with the download of source but are not needed for the default build (eg: apollo/netinet/in.h..deleting this file does not affect my build)

I tried a technique that works with normal gcc compilations. In this, I declared a string in all the source files and looked at the Hex dump to find out the strings (and used 'strings' shell command as well). This technique worked successfully on dummy c files that I made for testing. But it does not seem to work on perl source files themselves.

I was wondering if there is any way I can find out all the source files that go into building perl?

Thanks

In reply to Source files going into perl interpreter during compilation by buntyshubho

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