Re: Adding to @INC

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:30, Adam Witney <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On 7 Jan 2009, at 15:24, Vic Norton wrote:
>
>> I just installed Mac OS X 10.5, and I'm trying to get Perl back up to
>> snuff. My current @INC contains only
>>  /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level
>>  /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8
>>  /Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level
>>  /Library/Perl/5.8.8
>>  /Library/Perl
>>  /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level
>>  /Network/Library/Perl/5.8.8 /Network/Library/Perl
>>  /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level
>>  /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.8.8 /Library/Perl/5.8.6
>>  /Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
>>  /Library/Perl/5.8.1
>>
>> I plan to use CPANPLUS to install new packages and modules. Right now it
>> installs them in
>>  /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
>> This seems like a good place, but how can I add this directory to @INC? I
>> would prefer not having to start every script with
>>  use lib '/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8';
>
> Try adding this to your ~/.profile
>
> export PERL5LIB=${PERL5LIB}:/opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8

OS X 10.5 (or at least my version of 10.5) uses ~/.bash_profile not
~/.profile for user overrides to the default profile (/etc/bashrc).
If this is a multiuser machine and you want the other users to see the
modules as well you can set it in the default profile instead of your
own.

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