How ro specify path in "use lib qw()"

[Mimi Cafe]

My program is in the same directory as my module directory, but when I use
relative path in use lib, Perl doesn't find the module.



use lib qw(MyModule/), use lib qw(./MyModule/), use lib qw(MyModule) or use
lib qw(./MyModule/) # these don't work.



use lib qw(/var/www/cgi-bin/MyProject/) # This work fine, but I want to
avoid absolute path because it will not work on SuSe Linux for example.





I have tried various ways of specifying relative path and they don't work
except the absolute path from the / (file system root). I don't want to use
the absolute path it will break if my program is not still on RedHat Linux
where httpd docs are store in /var/www/*.



What is the recommended way of specifying the path in the CGI application?
It is relate to the web server document root as the file system / dir?





Mimi

[Shlomi Fish]

Hi Mimi,

Post by Mimi Cafe
My program is in the same directory as my module directory, but when I use
relative path in use lib, Perl doesn't find the module.
use lib qw(MyModule/), use lib qw(./MyModule/), use lib qw(MyModule) or use
lib qw(./MyModule/) # these don't work.
use lib qw(/var/www/cgi-bin/MyProject/) # This work fine, but I want to
avoid absolute path because it will not work on SuSe Linux for example.
I have tried various ways of specifying relative path and they don't work
except the absolute path from the / (file system root). I don't want to use
the absolute path it will break if my program is not still on RedHat Linux
where httpd docs are store in /var/www/*.
What is the recommended way of specifying the path in the CGI application?
It is relate to the web server document root as the file system / dir?

You can try the solution given in:

http://use.perl.org/~Aristotle/journal/33995

"use lib" can do relative paths just fine (as in the examples you have given),
but the fact that this is a server-side program may mess with the current
working directory. You can experiment by debugging stuff using print and
Data::Dumper to see.

Regards,

Shlomi Fish
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