SPUG: dynamic 'use lib'

[Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes]

In article <Pine.LNX.4.33.0203061656130.1848-100000 at well.marinated.org>,
Daryn Nakhuda <daryn at marinated.org> wrote:
>
>is there a way to do something along the lines of:
>
>$libdir = "/usr/local/foo";
>use lib $libdir;
>use BAR; # which is in $libdir
>
>I get the following:
>Empty compile time value given to use lib

BEGIN { $libdir = "/usr/local/foo"; }
use lib $libdir;
use BAR;

BEGIN{} executes code at compile time, so you can't use anything in it
that is only set at runtime.  If you need to set it at runtime, you'll
need to use require.

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