Additions to @INC

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

Fellow monks, I seek advice on strange happenings with mod_perl. The contents of @INC appear to get some additional, invalid directories added to them. If I run:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
foreach $item(@INC){
        print "$item <BR>\n";
}
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from the shell, I get the following:

# ./fred
Content-type: text/html
 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris <BR>
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503 <BR>
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris <BR>
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 <BR>
. <BR>
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When I run it under apache (1.3.12 + mod_perl 1.24), I get:

/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503/sun4-solaris 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.00503 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/sun4-solaris 
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 
. 
/usr/local/apache/ 
/usr/local/apache/lib/perl
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Any clues?

Ken

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Re: Additions to @INC by merlyn (Sage) on Aug 11, 2000 at 03:33 UTC
`mod_perl` adds those last directories for you automatically. It should be the configuration directory, and the configuration directory with `/lib/perl` attached. There's no harm if you don't have those directories. I use that to hold my `mod_perl`-only modules for handlers. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
RE: Re: Additions to @INC by Maclir (Curate) on Aug 11, 2000 at 05:39 UTC
Thanks for the prompt reply. In fact, the problem that let me to suspect somthing funny in that was all due to me forgetting that mod_perl has data persistance. Another reason for -w and use strict. Ken	[reply]
RE: Additions to @INC by Yohimbe (Pilgrim) on Aug 11, 2000 at 07:43 UTC
The file that adds these to @INC is usually startup.perl and it is named in the apache config files something along the lines of: Perlrequire /home/www/perl/startup.perl -- Jay "Yohimbe" Thorne, alpha geek for UserFriendly	[reply]