On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 6:35 PM, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 18:25 +0300, Gabor Szabo wrote: >> Oh and one more probably thing. >> Don't forget to set >> >> PERL5LIB = ~/perl5lib/lib >> >> in your shell *before* you run the CPAN shell or it will install >> prereqs but then it won't see them... > > Will cpan and perl continue to see modules installed globally > (in /usr/lib/perl5, /usr/local/lib, etc.) after I set PERL5LIB as above?
yes, see perl -V for the content of @INC which is the list of places where perl looks for modules. See alsi the order of the places. Thos in PERL5LIB precede the standard places meaning that if the same module is installed in both places perl and the cpan shell (which is just a perl script) will pick the one installed in PERL5LIB. Gabor _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
