Re: upgrading to perl-5.8.8-4

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Rob schrieb:
> 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";
> }

This will not work with the current perl-5.10 anymore, because I removed 
USE_SITECUSTOMIZE.

You'll have to use env PERL5LIB=/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl
or better fix your tools which install into this wrong dir.
--
Reini Urban
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