Adding a directory to @INC permenantly

jonjacobmoon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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(wil) Re: Adding a directory to @INC permenantly by wil (Priest) on Jul 02, 2002 at 17:44 UTC
You may be interested in a few suggestions offered in a recent thread on this topic. Specifically, look for mikfire's dirty hack which seems to work. For more information on PERL5LIB, or PERLLIB if PERL5IB is not defined, take a look at perldoc perlrun. Hope this helps. - wil	[reply]
•Re: Re: Adding a directory to @INC permenantly by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 03, 2002 at 16:01 UTC
But that suggestion doesn't work, for reasons I outlined in my followup. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: Adding a directory to @INC permenantly by jdavidboyd (Friar) on Jul 02, 2002 at 18:42 UTC
Perl FAQ 8 offers the following, under the question of: How do I add a directory to my include path at runtime? Here are the suggested ways of modifying your include path: the PERLLIB environment variable the PERL5LIB environment variable the perl -Idir command line flag the use lib pragma, as in use lib "$ENV{HOME}/myown_perllib"; The latter is particularly useful because it knows about machine dependent architectures. The lib.pm pragmatic module was first included with the 5.002 release of Perl. Myself, I go for the perl -Idir version.	[reply]
Re: Adding a directory to @INC permenantly by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jul 02, 2002 at 17:49 UTC
If this is a Unix system and the scripts are run by the webserver, you will need root access; then you can add the variable to `/etc/profile`. If you run the scripts yourself (or a program you started does), then you might simply add the variable to your `.profile` or `.bashrc` or whatever. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re: Adding a directory to @INC permenantly by jonjacobmoon (Pilgrim) on Jul 02, 2002 at 18:43 UTC
Doh! Of course, frustration, late nights, and plain stupidity got the best of me :) Thanks, Aristotle. I admit it, I am Paco.	[reply]
Re: Adding a directory to @INC permenantly by perrin (Chancellor) on Jul 02, 2002 at 17:53 UTC
Where do you change an environment variable? In your shell. That won't help with CGI scripts though, since they don't run as you. By far the best way to do this is by compiling perl with your customized lib path. Look at the install docs for instructions.	[reply]