SPUG: Change perl's libpth on the fly?
jimfl
jimfl at colltech.com
Tue Jan 18 16:53:52 CST 2000
--On Tuesday, January 18, 2000 12:55 PM -0800 Ryan Erwin <ryan at erwin.org>
wrote:
> My OpenBSD distro came with perl's libpth set to '/usr/lib'
> instead of '/usr/lib /usr/local/lib' or something else that
> would be useful ;)
>
> How can I change perl's libpth *without* rebuilding perl?
> Is there some variable that I can set that will take care of
> this? Maybe some cool switch that I haven't seen.
>
> You can check the lib path on your system with 'perl -V'
>
> I can't run GD or and of those cool Term:: modules until
> I get this libpth fixed so if anyone knows, please tell.
Permanently and inviariantly, no.
Within a script, you can say
use lib "/usr/local/lib";
And perl pays attention to the environment variable PERL5LIB, which you
can set for all users in /etc/profile or the apropriate file for the
shell(s) in use on your system. Set it to a colon-separated list of
places to look in before looking at the compiled-in path.
--
Jim Flanagan Collective Technologies
jimfl at colltech.com http://www.colltech.com
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