PERL Beginners - @INC search path

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@INC search path

Owen

2004-09-25, 8:55 pm

I just installed the latest File::Slurp and now I have two of them

/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/File/Slurp.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/File/Slurp.pm

a perldoc File::Slurp gives me the site_perl version(the latest)

Printing @INC gives me
..
..
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3
..
..
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1

perldoc -q @INC does not answer my query, so can I ask

Is the print out sequence of @INC consistent and the same as the search path?

I am very wary of deleting duplicate modules as it seems that those installed in the "vendor" (Mandrake) directory are necessary for much of Mandrake's operation.

TIA

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Owen

Gunnar Hjalmarsson

2004-09-26, 3:55 am

Owen wrote:
> I just installed the latest File::Slurp and now I have two of them
>
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3/File/Slurp.pm
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1/File/Slurp.pm
>
> a perldoc File::Slurp gives me the site_perl version(the latest)
>
> Printing @INC gives me
> .
> .
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.3
> .
> .
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.1
>
> perldoc -q @INC does not answer my query, so can I ask
>
> Is the print out sequence of @INC consistent and the same as the
> search path?

Yes. You can confirm it if you like:

print File::Slurp->VERSION, "\n";

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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