Yes, I was coming round to that sort of idea myself.

What it needs is something to set PERL5LIB in the environment (thus cloaking any nasty registry setting) before the LoadFile directive that loads perl510.dll, but there are no Apache or mod_perl directives to do that.

The nearest that we have is SetEnv and PerlSetEnv, but they just set the environment seen by CGI scripts and mod_perl handlers much later on.

The other idea is simply to rebuild my perl without that horrible registry lookup misfeature in it. It only requires a couple of lines to be deleted from win32/win32.c's win32_getenv(). In fact, in the email thread cited in my original post, Jan Dubois has already suggested actually removing it from perl altogether, so I might just take him up on pursuing that on p5p. (I'll still need to patch my own perl in the meantime, however: I can't wait until 5.12 for a fix.)

In reply to Re^2: Overriding the registry's PERL5LIB in mod_perl on Win32 by shay
in thread Overriding the registry's PERL5LIB in mod_perl on Win32 by shay

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