Brothers and Sisters, I have just taken my vows and joined the monastery. I'm glad to be here! Now,

I just installed perl 5.6.1 to replace my very old version 5.003. Everything went pretty well, except that there's a new lib location that I had never seen before. After installation, when I look at the release (installation) directory, I see: 
[mountain]/usr/local/perl/5.6.1 38> find . -name "lib.pm"
./lib/private/lib.pm
./lib/private/private/lib.pm
./lib/lib.pm

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What are these  private directories, and can I delete them?? I've searched for more discussion of these, but can't find much explanation about them. The Configure file has the following prompt: 
There are some auxiliary files for $package that need to be put
into a private library directory that is accessible by everyone.
Pathname where the private library files will reside?

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Secondly, when I run perl -V on the resulting new binary, I get the following (edited to just show the @INC values): 
Characteristics of this binary (from libperl): 
  Compile-time options: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under solaris
  Compiled at May  7 2001 00:16:23
  @INC:
    /usr/local/perl/5.6.1/lib/sun4-solaris
    /usr/local/perl/5.6.1/lib
    /usr/local/perl/5.6.1/lib/site_perl/sun4-solaris
    /usr/local/perl/5.6.1/lib/site_perl
    /usr/local/perl/5.6.1/lib/site_perl
    /usr/local/perl5/lib
    .

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Apparently, the private directories are not part of the installation, but note that the line /usr/local/perl/5.6.1/lib/site_perl showed up twice! So my question here is can I clean up the value of @INC after the build and installation?

Peace -- CadPhile...

In reply to private lib dirs in 5.6.1 by Anonymous Monk

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