On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 18:33, Morbus Iff wrote: > So, in my case, it appears that eval'ing the module in the .cgi script > is my only solution, based on this bit from the porting guidelines: > > When running under mod_perl, once the server is up @INC is frozen > and cannot be updated. The only opportunity to temporarily modify > @INC is while the script or the module are loaded and compiled for > the first time. After that its value is reset to the original one. > The only way to change @INC permanently is to modify it at startup.
I actually didn't even realize that, since I always do a "use lib" in my startup.pl file. > * the first time index.cgi is run with no database connection, > it loads all the magick modules I "use", save for LibDB::DB::MySQL. > it can do this because I've passed 'lib' and 'extlib' to @INC. > after the first run, @INC returns to normal (ie. no 'lib'/'extlib'). The only reason it doesn't work the second time is that "use lib 'lib'" happens at compile time. It's like a BEGIN block. To make it happen every time, you could just do this: unshift(@INC, qw(lib extlib)); - Perrin -- Report problems: http://perl.apache.org/bugs/ Mail list info: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/modperl.html List etiquette: http://perl.apache.org/maillist/email-etiquette.html
