[sf-perl] @INC

[Michael Friedman]

At my office, we store our code in CVS, so each developer has their  
own copy of our custom modules. To make that work we couldn't use  
'use lib' because we didn't want to edit the files everytime. Instead  
we use PERL5LIB, the environment variable.

Perl adds any dirs in PERL5LIB into your @INC before running any  
script. (See `man perlrun`.)

However, as the perlrun page points out, this is inherently insecure,  
so don't try it if you are checking for taint, running on a shared  
machine, etc. etc.

-- Mike

PS - You can also unshift dirs directly onto @INC, but that's the  
brute force approach.

On Aug 16, 2006, at 11:47 AM, Michael Budash wrote:

>        use lib '/path/to/the/modules';
>
> is the preferable way to do this
>
> On Aug 16, 2006, at 11:35 AM, Loo, Peter # PHX wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Will someone please tell me how I can add the Perl Modules in @INC
>> so that I can reference the using use statement?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Peter
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