Stephen E. Hargrove writes .. >On Thu, 10 May 2001, King, Jason wrote: > >> Stephen E. Hargrove writes .. >> >> >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. >> >> 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 >> >> use lib qw'/dirs/for /inclusion /in/INC'; > > >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 need to recompile Perl then .. the directories included in the @INC array are stored in the perl binary when Perl was originally built .. you can't change them without rebuilding Perl if you wanted to avoid hardcoding the @INC directories in every script you write you could put your own module into one of the @INC directories to be called by all your programs - and it would - in turn - load the other @INC directories .. ie. your module might be as follows package my_lib; use lib qw'/dirs/for /inclusion /in/INC'; 1; then in all your programs you'd have #!perl -w use strict; use my_lib; # .. code .. __END__ -- jason king In Denmark, if a horse carriage is trying to pass a car and the horse gets uneasy, the car is required to pull over and stop. If necessary to ease the horse down, you are required to cover the car up. - http://dumblaws.com/
