From: Rafael Garcia-Suarez Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 21:15:51 +0000 (+0000) Subject: [perl #22944] PERL5LIB is not colon-separated everywhere X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=48b971ca150628f9bfd4a49abb4675434cdd71df;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git [perl #22944] PERL5LIB is not colon-separated everywhere p4raw-id: //depot/perl@20164 --- diff --git a/pod/perlrun.pod b/pod/perlrun.pod index 2a57b6c..043ab5d 100644 --- a/pod/perlrun.pod +++ b/pod/perlrun.pod @@ -894,11 +894,13 @@ used. =item PERL5LIB -A colon-separated list of directories in which to look for Perl library +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. If PERL5LIB is not -defined, PERLLIB is used. +defined, PERLLIB is used. Directories are separated (like in PATH) by +a colon on unixish platforms and by a semicolon on Windows (the proper +path separator being given by the command C). When running taint checks (either because the program was running setuid or setgid, or the B<-T> switch was used), neither variable is used. @@ -1062,7 +1064,7 @@ and Win32 approximate equivalent: =item PERLLIB -A colon-separated list of directories in which to look for Perl library +A list of directories in which to look for Perl library files before looking in the standard library and the current directory. If PERL5LIB is defined, PERLLIB is not used.