I am currently working on a Unix box with Perl installed, but I do not have administrator rights to the Perl installation.

There are a few CPAN modules which would be extremely useful, and I would like to install them. tachyon's excellent tutorial: A Guide to Installing Modules explains how to use 

$ perl Makefile.PL LIB=~/lib

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Now, I want to add ~/lib to @INC for everything I run. Can I do this by means of an environment variable, e.g. putting into .profile something like:
export LIBPATH="$LIBPATH;~/lib"

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If this is not doable, I suppose I could alias perl to be perl -I~/lib (messy).

Also, failing this, how do I tell Makefile.PL to add a library to @LIB? This would be handy when I am installing multiple modules locally when they have depndencies.

Any help would be appreciated.

In reply to Personalised @LIB search path by rinceWind

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