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Subject: perlrebase, is there no better way?
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perlrebase is great, but it has some shortcomings.

You often have to break out of a cpan install and run it then continue,
then break out again, etc. to install some modules.

It doesn't automatically detect local::lib and perlbrew libs (perhaps I
can patch it for that.) Maybe support for a list of other dirs in
~/.perlrebase would be good.

What if ExtUtils::MakeMaker and Module::Build, in the code for the .dll
link stage, would automatically rebase the resulting .dll to some
address as set in /etc/perlrebase.conf?

Reini, what do you think?

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