I'm sure the first response will be "why?", but bear with me, there's a good reason.

I'm looking for a way to do something with a similar effect to "use lib", but which appends rather than prepends directories to the @INC path.

Reason is, my desktop machine is 64-bit, but as a Web developer, most of what I write will end up on a 32-bit machine. So in what I deliver I have to include modules that won't be on the live server (such as GD). But of course, where these have compiled code rather than simple Perl source (such as GD), they'll fail on my development system.

So what I need my scripts to do is to search for modules such as these in the standard locations on my development machine but fall-back to the libraries I supply for the production system.

I appreciate this will be less-than-optimum in production, but it's a price worth paying for my sanity.

In reply to Appending rather than prepending in "use lib" by beermad

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