Fellow PAR users,

I have an program that makes a system call to an executable a la: my @output = `figlet Hello`. The problem is that figlet, my executable, is not on the destination computers by default. So, I'd like to package it up with pp, like so: pp --output=myprog --addfile=figlet script.pl

Problem is that when I run the delivered executable on the destination computer, figlet is apparently not in the path (where does PAR stick it?) How can I specify a path to this executable? Should I be executing figlet in a different way?

Update: I found that at least on Solaris, the pp'ed executable uncompressed into /tmp/par-cache/cache-nnnn/ and the added files go into inc directory within there. However, my added executable is for some reason uncompressed with 664 permissions and is no longer executable. What gives?

In reply to PAR --addfile by gri6507

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