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Postings from October 1999
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 01:33:04AM -0400, Ilya Zakharevich wrote: >Ed Peschko writes: >> *sigh*. Ok, your point is well taken, but sometimes I *really* wish that there >> was something like a PERL_HEADER variable in which you could put stuff like >> this, and which would be included at the beginning of each file. Yes, there >> would be a performance hit, and yes it has the potential to make things >> non-portable, but its really beginning to SUCK to have to add six+ lines at >> the beginning of every file just to get functionality that is so common but >> also site-specific. Stuff like: >> >> use strict; >> use DBI; >> use FindBin; >> use lib $FindBin::Bin; >> use IO; >> use Data::Dumper; >> use Rebol; >> use lib "put site specific libraries here"; > >What about PERL5OPTS (sp?). Just put all these -M's there. Ok, I could live with that - can PERL5OPTS be set to a default whilst compiling perl itself? Ed