afternoon brothers of the cloth (or whatevr time it is with you)
I'm working on a web app which is mostly perl cgi. I use apache on my machine at home, with a dir 'dev' for my own latest code, another slightly more stable version on the root of the server that other peeps see. I also have some stuff in libraries. For the stable code this is at /usr/local/lib/site-perl - my unstable version is in the 'dev' directory.
The problem was to make my dev code all see the local library, not the one in /usr ... to do this I have
use lib "..";
in my files. It does nothing in the stable version, as there are no lib files at the server root, but in my dev code my unstable lib is seen before the stable one. Then I can commit and export, see the right code with no changes.
Of course, it breaks my scripts (all with -T) the moment I call sendmail. Took me a while to figure out. OK. So I change to:
use lib "/var/www/dev";
where necessary - but I still get the "insecure path" message. Hmmm. Why? ($ENV{PATH}, printed out right before taint complains, is
/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games)
And what is a better way of getting to say which library should be seen. I need something like a config file that specifies locations perhaps? I'm sure there is an easy, clean way ..
Many thanks, and happy $%@ing.

In reply to taint mode, libraries and file path by danmcb

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