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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2003-07-17 21:15:51 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2003-07-17 21:15:51 +0000
commit48b971ca150628f9bfd4a49abb4675434cdd71df (patch)
tree2c306da2809a3635f7b4cc6fc0c176a04529c600 /pod/perlrun.pod
parent2d862febb32638bf1f7663134644cf7e37f284ad (diff)
downloadperl-48b971ca150628f9bfd4a49abb4675434cdd71df.tar.gz
[perl #22944] PERL5LIB is not colon-separated everywhere
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20164
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diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod
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--- a/pod/perlrun.pod
+++ b/pod/perlrun.pod
@@ -894,11 +894,13 @@ used.
=item PERL5LIB
-A colon-separated list of directories in which to look for Perl library
+A list of directories in which to look for Perl library
files before looking in the standard library and the current
directory. Any architecture-specific directories under the specified
locations are automatically included if they exist. If PERL5LIB is not
-defined, PERLLIB is used.
+defined, PERLLIB is used. Directories are separated (like in PATH) by
+a colon on unixish platforms and by a semicolon on Windows (the proper
+path separator being given by the command C<perl -V:path_sep>).
When running taint checks (either because the program was running setuid
or setgid, or the B<-T> switch was used), neither variable is used.
@@ -1062,7 +1064,7 @@ and Win32 approximate equivalent:
=item PERLLIB
-A colon-separated list of directories in which to look for Perl library
+A list of directories in which to look for Perl library
files before looking in the standard library and the current directory.
If PERL5LIB is defined, PERLLIB is not used.