Hi, I'm on MacOS X and I have a couple of machines here, one Powerbook and one G5 desktop. Perl (apparently reporting the same version for both) has different @INC for each, and this is causing issues for gd-pm581 (GD.pm) that I have installed via fink (as I can never get it to compile cleanly out of CPAN) 
ashtaroth:~ dswan$ perl -e "print (@INC)"
/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.1/sw/l
+ib/perl5/sw/lib/perl5/darwin/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-
+multi-2level/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thre
+ad-multi-2level/Library/Perl/5.8.1/Library/Perl/Network/Library/Perl/
+5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1/Network/L
+ibrary/Perl.
ashtaroth:~ dswan$

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and 
Embley-m6:/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level dswan$
+ perl -e "print (@INC)"
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/System/Library/P
+erl/5.8.1/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/Library/Perl/
+5.8.1/Library/Perl/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2le
+vel/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1/Network/Library/Perl.Embley-m6:/System
+/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level dswan$

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The GD install has gone into /sw/lib/perl5/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level on both machines.

I know I can push paths into @INC with "use lib" but is there a way I can just get Perl to accept a new @INC permanently without major fiddling?

cheers,

Dan

Bukowski - aka Dan (dan@scot1and.net)
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In reply to modifying @INC other than use lib? by Bukowski

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