I had this problem when installing modules locally also. I wrote a small 'helper' module that I include from the command line, or in my scripts, which customises @INC for me by reading in a config file that contains a list of all directories I want added.

The module looks for a file /etc/perl5lib.pm (or %windir%/perl5lib.pm) and reads in a array ref of directories from that file.

It then massages @INC to include all relevant directories under those paths using hints from Config.pm about sitelib/privlib/archlib/vendorlib etc. without them needing to be explicitly declared.

You can download the file from here - it is too hackish to upload to CPAN as a module.

The /etc/perl5lib.pm file is in Data::Dumper format - it looks like this:

$VAR1=[
    '/opt/project1',
    '/opt/project2',
    ..
];
[download]

Then to include all the above directories *and* any relevant vendorlib/sitelib/archlib etc directories under them in which modules may have been installed, run

perl -I/path/to/perl5lib.pm -Mperl5lib script.pl
[download]

Or include in your script:

#!/bin/perl
use lib '/path/to/perl5lib.pm',
use perl5lib
[download]

I did not know about the perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=<path> LIB=<path> option mentioned above though - that looks like a better idea if the modules are not already installed.

---

---

• Are you posting in the right place? Check out Where do I post X? to know for sure.
• Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:

  <code> <a> <b> <big> <blockquote> <br /> <dd> <dl> <dt> <em> <font> <h1> <h2> <h3> <h4> <h5> <h6> <hr /> <i> <li> <nbsp> <ol> <p> <small> <strike> <strong> <sub> <sup> <table> <td> <th> <tr> <tt> <u> <ul>

• Snippets of code should be wrapped in <code> tags not <pre> tags. In fact, <pre> tags should generally be avoided. If they must be used, extreme care should be taken to ensure that their contents do not have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor intervention).
• Want more info? How to link or How to display code and escape characters are good places to start.