bradcathey has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:
Good monks:
I have a group of scripts that comprise a small CMS that I install for various customers. Each script (there are 12 so far) starts with
#!/usr/bin/perl -T use lib "/home/username/www/perllib"; use Validate; #little module for validating form input etc.
This means that each time I install it I have to physically edit each use lib statement. It would be nice to have one place to edit. I naively tried to keep the path in a text file and insert it as a variable:
#!/usr/bin/perl -T my $pathtolib = &opentextfile; use lib $pathtolib;
and even crazier:
I found a module called "FindBin" which I read about in the "Cookbook" but my host doesn't have it installed (I'm not sure it would find my modules as they are in an unconventional directory, not related to the cgi-bin file--but that is conjecture since I can't even try it at this time). Anyway, is this possible by some other means? Thanks.#!/usr/bin/perl -T my $pathtolib = &opentextfile; eval(use lib $pathtolib);
—Brad
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. " G. K. Chesterton
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Re: Variable to point to library?
by pbeckingham (Parson) on Jul 10, 2004 at 21:32 UTC | |
by bradcathey (Prior) on Jul 10, 2004 at 21:48 UTC | |
by pbeckingham (Parson) on Jul 10, 2004 at 22:36 UTC | |
Re: Variable to point to library?
by perldeveloper (Scribe) on Jul 10, 2004 at 21:36 UTC | |
by castaway (Parson) on Jul 11, 2004 at 07:23 UTC | |
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 12, 2004 at 00:35 UTC | |
Re: Variable to point to library?
by perrin (Chancellor) on Jul 10, 2004 at 23:06 UTC | |
Re: Variable to point to library?
by orderthruchaos (Scribe) on Jul 12, 2004 at 17:52 UTC | |
Re: Variable to point to library?
by benizi (Hermit) on Jul 12, 2004 at 23:15 UTC |
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