SPUG: dynamic 'use lib'

[Scott Blachowicz]

On Wed, Mar 06, 2002 at 04:58:42PM -0800, Daryn Nakhuda 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

My guess would be that 'use' is a compile time thing and that '$libdir'
setting is a runtime thing.  So, maybe something like this:

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

would do the trick.

Scott

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