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| author | Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> | 2013-02-20 08:58:49 -0500 |
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| committer | Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafayette.edu> | 2013-02-20 08:58:49 -0500 |
| commit | 4b85e17e39a85dc677455d8480c7a6c403ec00bc (patch) | |
| tree | 995c993d7021df367130d3c3e9c0641f25144271 /pod | |
| parent | 615e2f774517c03a3a6c4d123a812299d9465d74 (diff) | |
| download | perl-4b85e17e39a85dc677455d8480c7a6c403ec00bc.tar.gz | |
[perl #72892] Perl should support PERLmmnnLIB environment variable
This patch to perlrun.pod expands the documentation of the directory
hierarchy searched under the locations specified by PERL5LIB. It now
explicitly mentions the version- and architecture-specific directories
added, and also notes that $Config{inc_version_list} directories are
added. These additions were suggested by Damon Atkins.
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perlrun.pod | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index 2038c3cf44..8ef53b4f9d 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -979,9 +979,13 @@ X<PERL5LIB> A list of directories in which to look for Perl library files before looking in the standard library and the current -directory. Any architecture-specific directories under the specified -locations are automatically included if they exist, with this lookup -done at interpreter startup time. +directory. Any architecture-specific and version-specific directories, +such as F<version/archname/>, F<version/>, or F<archname/> under the +specified locations are automatically included if they exist, with this +lookup done at interpreter startup time. In addition, any directories +matching the entries in C<$Config{inc_version_list}> are added. +(These typically would be for older compatible perl versions installed +in the same directory tree.) 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 |