SPUG: Change perl's libpth on the fly?

Jamie Shaffer jshaffer at chronology.com
Tue Jan 18 17:22:21 CST 2000


Does setting the environment variable PERL5LIB get the results you want?

PERL5LIB, PERL5OPT and possibly a few other environment variables are
available to you to tweak such things.


Ryan Erwin 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.
>
> Thanks-
>
> Ryan Erwin [ryan at erwin.org]
>
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