Re^2: How to determine the path to the Perl binary that executed your program?

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Re^3: How to determine the path to the Perl binary that executed your program? by rafl (Friar) on Sep 28, 2006 at 19:43 UTC
Actually, it doesn't. `$ perl -le'print $^X' /usr/bin/perl $ cp /usr/bin/perl ~/tmp/ $ ./tmp/perl -le'print $^X' /home/rafl/tmp/perl` [download] Cheers, Flo	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: How to determine the path to the Perl binary that executed your program? by mreece (Friar) on Sep 28, 2006 at 19:48 UTC
according to perldoc perlvar, Depending on the host operating system, the value of $^X may be a relative or absolute pathname of the perl program file, or may be the string used to invoke perl but not the pathname of the perl program file. and indeed, `osx% perl -le'print $^X' perl` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: How to determine the path to the Perl binary that executed your program? by Hue-Bond (Priest) on Sep 28, 2006 at 20:59 UTC
There's a recent thread about this: Poll: Is your $^X an absolute path?. -- David Serrano	[reply]
Re^3: How to determine the path to the Perl binary that executed your program? by cephas (Pilgrim) on Sep 28, 2006 at 19:46 UTC
No, `$^X` comes from C's `argv[0]`. If perl was in the path, then it may just be "perl", in which case `File::Which` should track down the correct version. Or it could be a relative path, which can be resolved to a full path.	[reply] [d/l] [select]