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

Ok, me again. To review, I installed Perl 5.6.0 on a Cobalt RaQ2. Seems to be working. But the Cobalt has some libraries that it's not finding now. They're at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Cobalt and that doesn't seem to be a path in @INC. How can I modify the @INC to include the Cobalt package?

Current errors from Cron read like so: 

Can't locate Cobalt/Monitor.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/mips-linux /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/mips-linux
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0 /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl .)
+ at
/usr/local/sbin/monitor line 31.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/sbin/monitor line 31.

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Any help apreciated as always.

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Re: @INC
by chromatic (Archbishop) on May 02, 2000 at 07:43 UTC
    There are at least three ways I can think of. You could push the appropriate directory onto @INC in a BEGIN block, so compilation won't fail: 
    BEGIN {
    push @INC, "/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Cobalt";
}

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    You can use the -I switch in your hashbang line: #!/usr/bin/perl -w -I/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Cobalt My favorite is the use lib syntax: use lib "/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Cobalt"; The Perl faq says you can also modify the PERLLIB or PERL5LIB environmental variables. Check your .profile or .blahrc files there.
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Re: @INC
by perlmonkey (Hermit) on May 02, 2000 at 08:35 UTC
    Since you seem to be on a unix workstation the easiest way to do this without editing your existing programs is to just link your old directory into the current INC path. ln -s /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Cobalt /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/Cobalt So now perl will find it under /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl

    I think you could also recompile perl and specify the default links paths to include /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl. I have not done it, so that is a guess.

    If their is an easier way I am not aware of it.
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      I think you could also recompile perl and specify the default links paths to include /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl. I have not done it, so that is a guess.

      Supposedly, you can use the otherlibdirs Configure variable to push whatever you like onto @INC when you compile perl, but I haven't been able to get that to work.

      You can, however, use the "vendor-supplied add-ons" fields--vendorlib and vendorarch--for this purpose. Check out the INSTALL doc.

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