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authorRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-03-19 23:34:50 +0000
committerRafael Garcia-Suarez <rgarciasuarez@gmail.com>2007-03-19 23:34:50 +0000
commit29469fa673ae2b707c0e65eb6190f2fab11938b1 (patch)
tree26b48030c9bc863240dde191c2479cd350d38276 /pod/perlrun.pod
parent0282be9287c81efde41d8df3c62f1c95bb459498 (diff)
downloadperl-29469fa673ae2b707c0e65eb6190f2fab11938b1.tar.gz
More adjustments to the PERL5LIB docs by Rick
Delaney and myself p4raw-id: //depot/perl@30645
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@@ -1023,11 +1023,7 @@ X<PERL5LIB>
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. The checking if
-the specified directories and their architecture-specific
-subdirectories exist is only done once at interpreter startup time and
-not repeated later. So PERL5LIB has no effect for directories that are
-created at runtime.
+locations are automatically included if they exist.
If PERL5LIB is not defined, PERLLIB is used. Directories are separated
(like in PATH) by a colon on unixish platforms and by a semicolon on
@@ -1035,8 +1031,8 @@ 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.
-The program should instead say:
+or setgid, or the B<-T> or B<-t> switch was specified), neither variable
+is used. The program should instead say:
use lib "/my/directory";