Re^7: standard library to return system paths

You can install it from CPAN or bundle it with your application/distribution.

Other than that, there is no standard library for such stuff. That's what CPAN is for.

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Re^8: standard library to return system paths by ablanke (Monsignor) on Jun 08, 2016 at 07:59 UTC
Hi, be aware there is a difference between the system library path and the perl module path. Perl always knows where it's modules are installed. On your shell: `perl -V` The output on linux could look like this: `@INC: /usr/lib/perl5/... /usr/lib64/perl5/...` [download] If you can install CPAN modules, you can use them. As I understand `File::BaseDir` (you refer to it in your question) is also not an core module, so someone installed it. Maybe the result of `File::BaseDir` on the windows machine is empty because it's not installed there.	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^8: standard library to return system paths
by ablanke (Monsignor) on Jun 08, 2016 at 07:59 UTC

Hi,

be aware there is a difference between the system library path and the perl module path.

Perl always knows where it's modules are installed.

On your shell:

perl -V

The output on linux could look like this:

@INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/...
    /usr/lib64/perl5/...
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If you can install CPAN modules, you can use them.

As I understand File::BaseDir (you refer to it in your question) is also not an core module, so someone installed it. Maybe the result of File::BaseDir on the windows machine is empty because it's not installed there.

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