Brian Dessent writes:
> > 1. Why is /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl not listed on 5.8.8 ?
> Because having an unversioned directory in @INC was a mistake that was
> corrected.
OK, that's cool, but unfortunately we have some dependencies on perl modules
that get installed there via our own packaging tools and need that dir in @INC.
> > 2. why are there "duplicate" entries for:
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
> > /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
> vendor_perl contains modules that ship with perl from the packager.
> site_perl contains modules that were locally installed from CPAN.
If you look again at my output, you'll see that there are 2 of each of those
dirs listed. While I'm sure it will do no harm, just seemed odd.
> > 3. Even though /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8/cygwin and
> > /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 are listed in @INC,
> > the /lib/perl5/site_perl directory does not get created when the package is
> > installed and is missing.
> Then it sounds like you've not installed anything from CPAN. It should
> be created and populated the first time you do that.
Yes, as I mentioned we use an internal packaging tool to install stuff and not
CPAN, so I will just need to create this dir manually and add it to @INC.
On a related note, while searching for (an easy) way to do this, I found an
awesome but ill-documented feature to do so: Luckily, perl was compiled with
the USE_SITECUSTOMIZE option, so all I have to do is create a file called
sitecustomize.pl and stick it in one of the existing @INC dirs. The file is a
perl script that will push a dir to the @INC array as follows:
#!/usr/bin/perl
BEGIN {
push @INC, "/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl";
}
Simple! And problem solved.
Thanks.
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