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Jesse Engel - 09 Jan 2007 23:24 GMT

for some reason, X11 has a different version of @INC than reported with apple's terminal. if i run

perl -e 'foreach (@INC) { print "$_\n";}' with apple_terminal, i get

/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.1
/sw/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/sw/lib/perl5
/sw/lib/perl5/darwin
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1
/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/Library/Perl/5.8.1
/Library/Perl
/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1
/Network/Library/Perl
.

however, under xterm with the same command i get only the lines listed below /sw/lib/perl5/darwin
(in the above example).
i understand that i can have 'use lib "/foo/bar"' but it would be nice to have consistency. Also,
printenv returns less values in X11 than in apple_terminal. any ideas why?

tia,

jesse

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Jay Savage - 10 Jan 2007 00:00 GMT

> for some reason, X11 has a different version of @INC than reported with apple's terminal. if i run
>
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>
> jesse

Jesse,

It looks like you upgraded your Perl to 5.8 using fink instead of
installing it manually. Fink installed to /sw and then updated the rc
file (.cshrc, .profile, etc.) for your login shell to source a file
that, among other things, adds "/sw/bin" to your path and $PERL5LIB.
When you launch from X-11, though, none of the Fink files get sourced
and $PERL5LIB doesn't get set.

You'll need to either source the fink rc file, run your scripts from
the terminal, or install Perl to a standard location instead of the
Fink /sw tree.

The easiest thing would probably be to fink initialization stuff to
your ~./xinitrc. Google .xinitrc for all the gory details.

HTH,

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Kurtz Le Pirate - 11 Jan 2007 18:30 GMT

> for some reason, X11 has a different version of @INC than reported with
> apple's terminal. if i run
>
> perl -e 'foreach (@INC) { print "$_\n";}' with apple_terminal, i get

for me, under 'terminal' i get :
--------------------------------
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/darwin-2level
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/darwin-2level
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
/usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
.

under 'x11' :
-------------
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1
/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/Library/Perl/5.8.1
/Library/Perl
/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/Network/Library/Perl/5.8.1
/Network/Library/Perl
.

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Jesse Engel - 11 Jan 2007 23:51 GMT

all suggestions are gladly welcomed. i haven't had any time to poke at it but hopefully i can find
something good. i'm imagining that the lack of an xinitrc file other than the default is the
culprit. i have installed perlmodules via fink and that probably has created some issues as well.
thanks for all of the hints.

jesse

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Strange problem with @INC