Re: How to add to @INC?

[drieux]

On Saturday, Oct 25, 2003, at 21:58 US/Pacific, Vic Norton wrote:
[..]
My question is this. How do I change my Perl 5.8.0 @INC so that it 
reads
like

   ~/where_ever_I_am
   /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0/darwin
   /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.8.0
   /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/darwin
   /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0
   /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
   /System/Library/Perl/darwin
   /System/Library/Perl
   /Library/Perl
   ...
so that Perl 5.8.0 looks in my "/opt/local/" directories first --- and 
is
this advisable?
there is a simple way to solve this,
and that is to actually build your perl from source
and expressly call out the additional library lines
when asked during the 'configure' phase of building
your site_local version of perl.
there is the minor fly in the ointment, in that
those parts of the 5.6 Perl Modules that rest upon
'compiled binaries' are NOT compatible with the 5.8
release, so you would not want to do what you are
askinf for to begin with.
Those "pure perl" modules that would exist in
the 5.6 tree should either
        a. be reconfigured to be in the "/opt/local/lib/...."
                section having been built and installed there
        b. you should call them out independently as you did
                with the
		use lib qw(/Library/Perl /System/Library/Perl);

		type of approach.

Assuming that the new Panther Release will be using perl 5.8
you may want to re-think some of this.
ciao
drieux
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