Hello Monks, Earlier today I recieved several options on how to force a script to use modules that I select from my local cgi bin rather than using the perl modules from the server.

None of them work. Obviously I am missing some huuuuge detail in these examples.

Please Help Me understand

The only version that prints for GD is the version on the default (1.18)      use GD;
Why can't the scripts ever see the other modules.

The other version that is located in my cgi-local directory is 1.27

Browser UK was kind enough to help me with the script that prints out which version of a module is currently being used. Thanks again to him! 

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w 
use CGI ':standard';
#use GD;                              #version GD 1.18


#use lib qw(/u/web/dom/cgi-local/GD); # EMPTY


#unshift @INC, '/u/web/dom/cgi-local'; # EMPTY
<BR><BR>

#use FindBin;                     #Internal Server Error
#use lib $FindBin::Bin;           #Internal Server Error


#use lib '/u/web/dom/cgi-local/GD';   # EMPTY


print header, html( h1( "CGI: $CGI::VERSION GD: $GD::VERSION" ) );

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In reply to Using the modules I want to use. by cal

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