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Re: upgrading to perl-5.8.8-4


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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