Re: [mp1] PERL5LIB handled backwards (mod_perl 1.27+)

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From: Stas Bekman
Subject: Re: [mp1] PERL5LIB handled backwards (mod_perl 1.27+)
Date: 02:02 on 09 Feb 2005

Gordon Lack wrote:
> Gordon Lack wrote:
> 
>>>>   While it now does unshift rather than push (so the entries end up at
>>>>the front of @INC, not the back) it does so backwards!
>>>>
>>>>  eg:
>>>>
>>>> PerlPassEnv PERL5LIB /dir1:/dir2:/dir3
>>>
>>>You mean, PerlSetEnv, don't you? PerlPassEnv doesn't accept values.
>>
>>   Yes, I did - but you get the idea :-).
> 
> 
>    Related bug.

>    Using PERL5LIB in this way does not add architecture-specific
> sub-dirs to @INC (which setting PERL5LIB in the environment does do).

why not fixing that too? should be as easy as copying the relevant bits of 
code from the perl source (just grep for PERL5LIB).

>    Suggested fix:
> 
>   Document the use of:
> 
> <Perl>
>    use lib qw( /dir1 /dir2 /dir3 );
> /Perl>
> 
> instead if you wish to affect mod_perl, or just use SetEnv if you just
> want to affect CGI (but those scripts *should* be using use lib
> themselves....IMHO).


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