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in thread use lib and use autouse 'module'

would the use lib $g_moduleDir;give a runtime error?

Didn't yesterday when I posted that, and didn't right now. This is what I tried:

use lib '/home/hue/nonexistent';
use autouse 'FOO' => qw/foo/;
sleep 10;
foo;

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Then, in another console, did a mkdir nonexistent; mv FOO.pm nonexistent. No warnings or errors from the program, it just run seamlessly.

Empty compile time value given to use lib

It seems you passed an empty variable to lib. Check it.

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David Serrano

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Re^6: use lib and use autouse 'module'
by sshivell (Initiate) on Aug 22, 2006 at 17:51 UTC
    >> would the use lib $g_moduleDir;give a runtime error?

    Yes. use lib $g_moduleDir would need to be processed at RUNTIME after the $g_moduleDir variable has been set. Unfortunately "use" is processed at compile time and as such $g_moduleDir has not been set which will always create the empty string error that you have seen. You can hard code the path and it will work  use lib 'path/to/my/personal/lib/dir'

    *Update:

    Amusingly enough you can do something like this 
    #!/usr/bin/perl
BEGIN{
  use Config::YAML;
  our $c= Config::YAML->new("/pathtoconfigfile");
  our $inc_path = $c->get_includePath;
}
use lib $inc_path;

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