Ah, got it all figured out -- it works! Thanks Andrew and Chas for your
help!
- Bryan
>> On 5/15/07, Bryan R Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> snip
>>>
>>> It worked! Sort of...
>>>
>>> According to the camel book, "use lib" looks for "$dir/$archname/auto", but
>>> $archname isn't defined and I don't know what it's supposed to be...
>>>
>>> How can I find out what it's supposed to be?
>>
>> You don't, you just set it to /home/user/perl and it looks in the
>> normal subdirectories (that is what $archname/auto means).
>>
>> use lib '/home/user/perl';
>
> That doesn't sound right -- from the book:
>
> **************************************
> Parameters to use lib are prepended to the beginning of Perl's search path.
> Saying use libLIST is almost the same as saying BEGIN { unshift(@INC,LIST)
> }, but use libLIST includes support for platform-specific directories. For
> each given directory $dir in its argument list, the lib pragma also checks
> to see whether a directory named $dir/$archname/auto exists. If so, the
> $dir/$archname directory is assumed to be a corresponding platform-specific
> directory, so is added to @INC (in front of $dir).
> **************************************
>
> I definitely want this, because I have different platforms (os x, linux,
> irix) running this script and I'd like them to use the module binary
> corresponding to it...
>
> Anybody know how I can make that work?
>
> - B
>
>
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