vinoth.ree has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi Monks,

I was installing perl modules in my local directory using the PREFIX in CPAN/MyConfig.pm , I set the path as /home/ree/General/perl/ and, I was saving the path of each installed modules in the PERL5LIB environment variable in my .bashrc file as below,

export PERL5LIB="$PERL5LIB:/home/ree/General/perl/local/share/perl/5.8.8/:/home/ree/General/perl/share/perl/5.8.8/:/home/ree/General/perl/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/:/home/General/perl/share/perl/5.8.8/" So I am adding the path in this bash file, whenever I install a perl module

Is there any other way to specify only single path in PERL5LIB , where all the perl modules gets installed ?

Update

What I am asking that I want all the perl modules in a single directory instead of going 'local/share' or 'share/lib/'

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Re: PERL5LIB usage ?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 15, 2009 at 13:52 UTC 
    # In login script
export PERL5LIB=~/lib/perl5

# Installing a module
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=~ LIB=~/lib/perl5
make test
make install

# Using the module
perl -e'use My::Module'

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Re: PERL5LIB usage ?
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 15, 2009 at 09:56 UTC
    Set PERL5LIB to value of PREFIX and you're done
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Re: PERL5LIB usage ?
by cdarke (Prior) on Jul 15, 2009 at 11:49 UTC
    The directories in PERL5LIB are searched before the standard directories (they are placed on the front of @INC). I don't think there is a way of removing the standard libraries just using the environment variable.

    You can do more sophisticated adjustment from with perl by manipulating @INC within a BEGIN block, but that is not for the faint hearted.

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