Re^3: Changing Perl compile-time configuration settings

...ok... scanning ActiveState::RelocateTree<br< />

It looks like it checks every file in the ActiveState installation (without reading too much about File::Find), checks with a regex in the check subroutine to see if they contain the $opt{from} string (which is the current $Config{prefix}), then pass the files to the edit subroutine which search and replaces the from location with the to location (and pads binary files).

It's comprehensive brute force, and probably OTT.

I should really do a grep for all files with C:\strawberry\ and see how long the list is...

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Re^4: Changing Perl compile-time configuration settings by syphilis (Archbishop) on Feb 20, 2008 at 11:52 UTC
It's comprehensive brute force, and probably OTT I haven't delved into it, but I suspect that a lot of the extra effort it goes to has more to do with PPM than anything else. I was actually quite surprised that such a beast existed .... ++ to CountZero for drawing attention to it. Cheers, Rob	[reply]