Re^4: Overriding default libs

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That worked perfectly, Thanks. How deep(how many sub-directory levels) does perl look when given a path for use lib /path/... ?

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Re^5: Overriding default libs by tobyink (Canon) on Nov 15, 2012 at 14:24 UTC
It doesn't look any levels down. If you: `use lib "/tmp"; use Foo::Bar;` [download] ... then Perl will use "/tmp/Foo/Bar.pm", but not "/tmp/x/Foo/Bar.pm". The exception for your CPU architecture name (in your case "x86_64-linux-thread-multi") is due to some trickery by `use lib` which automatically detects those directories if they exist (and look like proper locations containing architecture-specific libraries), and unshifts two entries onto `@INC` instead of the normal one. `perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'`	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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Re^5: Overriding default libs
by tobyink (Canon) on Nov 15, 2012 at 14:24 UTC

It doesn't look any levels down. If you:

use lib "/tmp";
use Foo::Bar;
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... then Perl will use "/tmp/Foo/Bar.pm", but not "/tmp/x/Foo/Bar.pm".

The exception for your CPU architecture name (in your case "x86_64-linux-thread-multi") is due to some trickery by use lib which automatically detects those directories if they exist (and look like proper locations containing architecture-specific libraries), and unshifts two entries onto @INC instead of the normal one.

perl -E'sub Monkey::do{say$_,for@_,do{($monkey=[caller(0)]->[3])=~s{::}{ }and$monkey}}"Monkey say"->Monkey::do'

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