Question

Doesn’t work with other modules, but to give an example. I installed Text::CSV_XS with a CPAN setting:

'makepl_arg' => q[PREFIX=~/lib], 

When I try running a test.pl script:

$ perl test.pl

#!/usr/bin/perl  use lib '/homes/foobar/lib/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi';  use Text::CSV_XS;  print 'test'; 

I get

 Can't load '/homes/foobar/lib/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Text/CSV_XS/CSV_XS.so' for module Text::CSV_XS: /homes/foobar/lib/lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/auto/Text/CSV_XS/CSV_XS.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /www/common/perl/lib/5.8.2/i686-linux/DynaLoader.pm line 229. at test.pl line 6 Compilation failed in require at test.pl line 6. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 6. 

I traced the error back to DynaLoader.pm it happens at this line:

# Many dynamic extension loading problems will appear to come from # this section of code: XYZ failed at line 123 of DynaLoader.pm. # Often these errors are actually occurring in the initialisation # C code of the extension XS file. Perl reports the error as being # in this perl code simply because this was the last perl code # it executed.  my $libref = dl_load_file($file, $module->dl_load_flags) or     croak('Can't load '$file' for module $module: '.dl_error()); 

CSV_XS.so exists in the above directory

Answer 1

Personally I would suggest to use local::lib. 🙂