[sf-perl] /usr/local/foo/ for cpan and locally grown modules

[Quinn Weaver]

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:23:02AM -0800, Joe Brenner wrote:
> David Alban <extasia at extasia.org> wrote:

> >   use lib "/usr/local/reg/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0";
> >   use Crypt::PasswdMD5;
> 
> Do you know about the PERL5LIB environment variable?  If you put 
> a few of your commonly used /usr/local paths in your PERL5LIB, you can
> stop adding them to all to your scripts with "use lib".

Right.  And in this case, you'd do

export PERL5LIB=/usr/local/reg/lib/perl5 # bash syntax

... then Perl automatically searches under there for site_perl,
site_perl/5.8.0, and all those other weirdly named subdirs that
Perl uses to install things.

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