Hello
I'm trying to use modules. However use requires hard path or relative path from users path (path where user gives command not where the perl script actually is). However there seems to no way i can make the perl to include library (modules) dir relative to sript itself.

Eg. My script is in "/work/programs/bin/myscript.pl" and i have module in "/work/programs/perl_modules/Module.pm". Script has "use lib "../perl_modules" Now i'm giving command from "/home/hena" directory and the library include has "../perl_modules" but it is unable to find it.

I found an earlier posting on similar thing, which guided to use use "File::Spec::Functions qw(rel2abs);" and "use lib rel2abs($0);". This adds the script itself into path. But i'm still not able to give it the "../perl_modules" (i could remove script name with `dirname $0`) part.

I posted this question as anonymous monk, but then i lost the question and was unable to find it with search. So sorry for the reposting. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

In reply to Using modules with relative paths by Hena

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