setting path to LIB folder

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Re: setting path to LIB folder by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 15, 2004 at 10:42 UTC
You have many options. Let's assume you put your program specific modules in a directory `lib/` below your current program directory. The most common option is to use the lib pragma: `use lib 'lib';` [download] You can also do yourself what the lib pragma does: `BEGIN { unshift @INC, 'lib' };` [download] You can also change the environment variable that Perl looks at for additional include directories: `# in the shell script that starts your program: PERL5LIB=/home/vvh/program/lib export PERL5LIB perl -w /home/vvh/program/program.pl $` [download] Or you can start Perl with the `-I` parameter to specify the additional include directory: `# in the shell script that starts your program: perl -w -I/home/vvh/program/lib /home/vvh/program/program.pl $` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: setting path to LIB folder by vagnerr (Prior) on Apr 15, 2004 at 11:07 UTC
If you have many perl scripts, or don't what to have to do a "use lib" in all your scripts you can also set the environment variable PERL5LIB to the directory containing your modules. eg. `export PERL5LIB=/path/to/lib/dir` [download] Under unix (specificaly bash). If you put that in your .bash_profile then you dont have to worry about it again _______________________________________________________ Remember that amateurs built Noah's Ark. Professionals built the Titanic.	[reply] [d/l]
Re(2): setting path to LIB folder by bart (Canon) on Apr 15, 2004 at 11:25 UTC
If this is for CGI scripts under Apache, and Taint isn't on, then you can set environment variables in your `httpd.conf` or `.htaccess` files, using the SetEnv directive. If your server setup allows it... I don't even know which directive-type you'd have to allow, except that it definitely won't work if AllowOverride is set to "None". ("In this case, the server will not even attempt to read .htaccess files in the filesystem.")	[reply]
Re: Re: setting path to LIB folder by Anonymous Monk on Apr 15, 2004 at 11:11 UTC
Except when you turn -Taint on	[reply]
Re: setting path to LIB folder by Anonymous Monk on Apr 16, 2004 at 06:43 UTC
Or just move the perl modules into your local site directory, which under debian linux is: /usr/local/lib/site_perl To find it on a unixy system, run: perl -e 'print "@INC\n"' Or on a more braindead platform: perl -e "print join(',',@INC)" And look for a directory that ends in site_perl. This is what that directory is for, if you have write permissions to it...	[reply]