On May 9, Stephen E. Hargrove said:
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>On Thu, 10 May 2001, King, Jason wrote:
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>> Stephen E. Hargrove writes ..
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>> >how do i add new directories to @INC? i've managed to bungle one of my
>> >debian systems, and apt-get relies pretty heavily on some .pm's that
>> >aren't in the stock @INC locations.
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>> there's a hand module called 'lib' that's part of the CORE distribution ..
>> it basically just unshifts your list onto the @INC array in a BEGIN block
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>> use lib qw'/dirs/for /inclusion /in/INC';
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>doesn't this just make the adjustment at compile time? what i'm really
>needing is something that will modify @INC for all time. can that be
>done?
You can't do it for EVERYTHING unless you recompile Perl. You can do it
for yourself all the time by setting the PERL5LIB environment variable to
a colon-separated list of directories to add to @INC automatically.
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