in reply to Poll: Is your $^X an absolute path?

I did a test similar to Hue-Bond's 
perl -le 'print $^X'
/usr/bin/perl -le 'print $^X'
/usr/bin/../bin/perl -le 'print $^X'
env perl -le 'print $^X'

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and all came back absolute, on a roll-your-own system based on Slackware 10.1
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