Dear Wise Monks,

I have to do both module and application development in Perl. Once modules are done, they are placed in a shared repository.

The repository is in a non-standard location and so I use the following in my applications to get at the functionality:

use lib '/foo/bar/shared_modules';

However, sometimes I want to make a small modification to a local copy the module and then use that with my program.

Ideally, I don't want to change the 'use lib' line of the program - the fewer lines that have to change, the better.

I tried to run the application as follows to compile against my local (modified) module:

perl -I/home/user/local_modules MyApplication.pl

But, what I find is that the directory of 'use lib' has precedence. Is there a way from the command line to have my custom module directory searched first?

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