overriding perl modules

[calabama]

Hello,

Currently my script has a

use GD;

line at the begining.
I thought that this invokes the GD module residing in the MAIN perl app on the server.

I want to use the GD module that is loaded locally to my script within my cgi-local directory not the servers cgi-bin.

How do I do this?

Thanks In the begining
Let us first assume that there was nothing to begin with.

 

[PerlIsGood]

Hi calabama,

You can change where Perl looks for modules by placing this statement before the 'use GD' line:

use lib '/dir/to/cgi-bin';

[hth] Notorious P.I.G.

 

[calabama]

Is this a full pathname? In the begining
Let us first assume that there was nothing to begin with.

 

[PerlIsGood]

I've never actually used it, but according to what I've read it 'shouldn't' be a relative pathname.

Quote from the fuzzy-llama [Learning Perl: O'Reilly]:
Be sure to use a nonrelative pathname as the argument, since there's no telling what will be the current working directory when your program is run. This is especially important for CGI programs [...] Notorious P.I.G.