[lug] @INC problems

[Tkil]

>>>>> "John" == John Starkey <jstarkey at advancecreations.com> writes:

John> push (@INC, "/var/neomail")

John> to 

John> push (@INC, ".")

note that "require" is done at compile-time, before any statements are
executed.  if you want to make sure that /var/neomail is on the
include path, use:

   use lib '/var/neomail';

at the top of your script.

my overall feeling so far is that this shouldn't be this hard, and
that something really obvious is missing.  i don't know what that
would be, tho.

(and it seems that screwy permissions will in fact cause the "can't
find" error:

| $ touch foo.pm
| $ chmod 0 foo.pm
| $ ls -al foo.pm
| ----------    1 tkil     tkil            0 Oct 31 18:44 foo.pm
| $ perl -Mfoo -lwe 'print "hi mom"';
| Can't locate foo.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
|   /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/i386-linux 
|   /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503
|   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/i386-linux
|   /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005 
|   .).
| BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
| $ chmod 644 foo.pm
| $ perl -Mfoo -lwe 'print "hi mom"';
| foo.pm did not return a true value.
| BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.
| $ echo "1;" >> foo.pm
| $ perl -Mfoo -lwe 'print "hi mom"';
| hi mom

so you might want to make sure that the permissions really are
correct.

t.