Perl library question

Seth Gordon sethg at ropine.com
Wed Jan 4 13:31:58 EST 2006


Jerry Feldman wrote:
> I have a directory tree:
> /foo/bar/share/bin
> /foo/bar/share/lib
> In a perl script, I have 
> use Options; 
> Where Options.pm is in /foo/bar/share/lib
> I can solve the problem by adding 
> use lib /foo/bar/share/lib;
> 
> But, these are standard scripts that I don't really have the authority to 
> change. If I don't have the use lib, I get...
> Can't locate Options.pm in @INC (@INC contains:.....)
> Obviously this is set by either a Perl command line flag or environment 
> variable. I have looked in programming Perl book, but  have not found it 
> yet.

"perldoc perlrun" is the place to go for command-line flags.

"perl -I/foo/bar/share/lib script_you_cant_change.pl ..." should do what 
you want.




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