The advantage of using
use lib is that it also adds the directory specific to the architecture.
Quick-and-very-dirty workarounds:
- Make a dummy "pragma" module which simply lists the include directories you want:
# In myInc.pm, located in standard perl lib directory
package myInc;
use lib /path/to/my/special/lib;
1;
This only shifts the problem, but you have the advantage of a simpler inclusion and, what's better, the fact that you don't have to change anything in your scripts, only in the local myInc package:
# ... in your script
use myInc;
use GD; # or whatever in your local lib
# ...
-
given the fact that you're always using strict (aren't you?!?), you could put the use lib directly in strict.pm, but I've never suggested you to do that :)
The first solution seems the one to go if you want to give these headless advices a try. I only hope
merlyn's hammer won't be too heavy on me!
Update: fixed 8-PM typo, thanks to eric256 for signaling!
Flavio (perl -e "print(scalar(reverse('ti.xittelop@oivalf')))")
Don't fool yourself.