[Mpls-pm] System-context referencing of in-house perl libraries

[James Oliver Smith, Jr]

Hi...

I have a web-based system that I have developed here at the University 
of Minnesota which currently runs on Solaris and Debian *nix systems, 
and now needs to run on MS-XP as well.

There is an extensive set of libraries that I use which I want to use on 
MS-XP systems, as well as on the *nix systems.

Currently, I use the following 'use' directories to reference these 
libraries:
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use lib "/usr/local/bass/lib";
use lib "/usr/local/bass/alder/lib";
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which will not work on MS-XP, which would need something like:
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  'c:\Program Files\bass\<libraries>'.
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What I would really like to be able to do is determine what kind of 
system the system is running in and then determine which library paths 
to use, depending on whether it is running on MS-XP or some other 
systems. Eventually, I would like to run (potentially) multiple test 
systems, each referencing a different version of the libraries.

So, the question is, since the 'use lib' seems to be resolved at compile 
time, how does one, within perl, reference different library locations 
(but the same library synchronized via CVS) in a 
system-context-sensitive manner, without using a predefined environemnt 
variable?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Jim


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josjr at umn.edu
JimSmith at CyberPoet.com
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www.cyberpoet.com/JimSmith/

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