On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 02:45:20PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: <snip> > >> On Sep 23, 2011 1:00 AM, "Mike McClain" <mike.j...@cox.net> wrote: > >> > On my system @INC doesn't include /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/ > >> > even though there are nearly 1000 files there. > >> > Can anybody tell me where @INC is set. > >> > > > MM> Actually, as usual, the problem turned out to be 'operator malfunction'. > MM> There is /usr/share/perl/5.8/ which is a link to /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/ > MM> but I didn't realize it and used File::Find without setting the 'follow' > MM> flag in a routine to build a data base of perl routines and the file and > MM> line where defined. > > you also misstated the problem. you said perl doesn't have > /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/ in @INC. did you ever verify that with perl -V?
No I did it like this: mike@/deb40a:~> perl -le 'print $_ for @INC;' > if that was your main dir for holding modules and perl couldn't see it, > nothing would be loaded. if you had said File::Find can see files in > there but perl could, then someone would have asked about a symlink and > pointed you to the follow option. this is a lesson to all about proper > stating of the problem. that is half the solution to any problem. > > when confronted by this you first make sure perl sees the modules but > your code doesn't. that eliminates the whole issue of @INC and how it is > set. that was the X part of an XY problem. you thought the problem was X > (not being in @INC) but it was Y (follow not set and a File::Find > issue). How kind of you to re-state what I had just said, I certainly hope it makes you feel better and clearly a full understanding of the origin of the problem led directly to its solution. That's why I posted it as '[SOLVED]'. Have a nice day, Mike -- Satisfied user of Linux since 1997. O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
