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blib

Section: Perl Programmers Reference Guide (3perl)
Updated: 2007-12-18
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NAME

blib - Use MakeMaker's uninstalled version of a package  

SYNOPSIS

 perl -Mblib script [args...]

 perl -Mblib=dir script [args...]

 

DESCRIPTION

Looks for MakeMaker-like 'blib' directory structure starting in dir (or current directory) and working back up to five levels of '..'.

Intended for use on command line with -M option as a way of testing arbitrary scripts against an uninstalled version of a package.

However it is possible to :

 use blib; 
 or 
 use blib '..';

etc. if you really must.  

BUGS

Pollutes global name space for development only task.  

AUTHOR

Nick Ing-Simmons nik@tiuk.ti.com


 

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