[sf-perl] use lib: order doesn't seem to matter
David Alban
extasia at extasia.org
Tue Aug 24 10:53:14 PDT 2010
greetings,
one of our customary 'use lib' statements for a local program is:
use lib '/nas/reg/lib/perl';
i'm modifying the program and in my development area, i want to use a
locally modified version of one of the modules it uses.
but it's picking up the installed module rather than my local module.
here's what i'm seeing:
DB<1> l 1+10
1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2
3: use strict;
4: use warnings;
5
6: use lib '/nas/reg/lib/perl';
7
8 ##### => dbg
9: use lib
'/nas/home/dalban/perforce/srwd00reg001/default/internal/reg/pb_reg_nasify_properties/lib/perl';
10 ##### <= dbg
11
DB<2> x @INC
0 '/nas/reg/lib/perl/x86_64-linux-thread-multi'
1 '/nas/reg/lib/perl/5.8.5'
2 '/nas/reg/lib/perl'
3 '/nas/home/dalban/perforce/srwd00reg001/default/internal/reg/pb_reg_nasify_properties/lib/perl'
and if i reverse the order in which i "use" them, i get:
DB<1> l 1+10
1 #!/usr/bin/perl
2
3: use strict;
4: use warnings;
5
6 ##### => dbg
7: use lib
'/nas/home/dalban/perforce/srwd00reg001/default/internal/reg/pb_reg_nasify_properties/lib/perl';
8 ##### <= dbg
9
10: use lib '/nas/reg/lib/perl';
11
DB<2> x @INC
0 '/nas/reg/lib/perl/x86_64-linux-thread-multi'
1 '/nas/reg/lib/perl/5.8.5'
2 '/nas/reg/lib/perl'
3 '/nas/home/dalban/perforce/srwd00reg001/default/internal/reg/pb_reg_nasify_properties/lib/perl'
i thought 'use lib' had the effect of unshifting its arg onto @INC,
but /nas/reg/lib/perl seems to "win" no matter in what order i specify
the libs.
i've done this before with no problem. i'm sure i'm missing
something. or perhaps it only seemed to work before...
what am i missing?
thanks,
david
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