Greetings folks,

I've recently come across a problem whereby I'd like to conditionally use 'use lib' (which doesn't work due to the early order of processing 'use' in compilation).

The question then, is there a better way then this:

BEGIN {
    use Sys::Hostname;
    if ( hostname() eq 'foo.bar.org' ) {
        unshift @INC, ('/alternate/libdir');
    } else {
        unshift @INC, ('/default/libdir');
    }
}

To achieve something close to to 'meaning' of:

BEGIN {
    use Sys::Hostname;
    if ( hostname() eq 'foo1.bar.org' ) {
        use lib '/alternate/libdir';
    } else {
        use lib '/default/libdir';
    }
}

In reply to Conditional 'use lib' by bjdean

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