rpike has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm looking to add some directories (outside of my scripts at the system) to the @INC variable used by Perl. I have additional directories I want to store modules in. Can I (how can I) add directories that will be added to @INC from outside a script and what's the easiest/best way to add to the @INC variable from within a script? Thanks monks for any help you can give.

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Re: Adding to @INC
by moritz (Cardinal) on Nov 04, 2009 at 19:03 UTC
    perlrun describes various methods such as the -I option and the PERL5LIB and other env variables.
    Perl 6 - links to (nearly) everything that is Perl 6.
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Re: Adding to @INC
by kennethk (Abbot) on Nov 04, 2009 at 19:02 UTC
    This is discussed here in perlvar. The short of it is using -I on the command line (perlrun) or pushing on to the array at runtime (with some additional care depending on what you are INCluding, see require).
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      ... pushing on to the array at runtime ...
      The lib pragma discussed with  @INC in perlvar does this very conveniently.
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Re: Adding to @INC
by toolic (Bishop) on Nov 04, 2009 at 19:04 UTC
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