lib::core::only(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation lib::core::only(3pm)
NAME
lib::core::only - Remove all non-core paths from @INC to avoid site/vendor dirs
SYNOPSIS
use lib::core::only; # now @INC contains only the two core directories
To get only the core directories plus the ones for the local::lib in scope:
$ perl -mlocal::lib -Mlib::core::only -Mlocal::lib=~/perl5 myscript.pl
To attempt to do a self-contained build (but note this will not reliably propagate into
subprocesses, see the CAVEATS below):
$ PERL5OPT='-mlocal::lib -Mlib::core::only -Mlocal::lib=~/perl5' cpan
Please note that it is necessary to use "local::lib" twice for this to work. First so
that "lib::core::only" doesn't prevent "local::lib" from loading (it's not currently in
core) and then again after "lib::core::only" so that the local paths are not removed.
DESCRIPTION
lib::core::only is simply a shortcut to say "please reduce my @INC to only the core lib
and archlib (architecture-specific lib) directories of this perl".
You might want to do this to ensure a local::lib contains only the code you need, or to
test an App::FatPacker tree, or to avoid known bad vendor packages.
You might want to use this to try and install a self-contained tree of perl modules. Be
warned that that probably won't work (see "CAVEATS").
This module was extracted from local::lib's --self-contained feature, and contains the
only part that ever worked. I apologise to anybody who thought anything else did.
CAVEATS
This does not propagate properly across perl invocations like local::lib's stuff does. It
can't. It's only a module import, so it only affects the specific perl VM instance in
which you load and import() it.
If you want to cascade it across invocations, you can set the PERL5OPT environment
variable to '-Mlib::core::only' and it'll sort of work. But be aware that taint mode
ignores this, so some modules' build and test code probably will as well.
You also need to be aware that perl's command line options are not processed in order - -I
options take effect before -M options, so
perl -Mlib::core::only -Ilib
is unlike to do what you want - it's exactly equivalent to:
perl -Mlib::core::only
If you want to combine a core-only @INC with additional paths, you need to add the
additional paths using -M options and the lib module:
perl -Mlib::core::only -Mlib=lib
# or if you're trying to test compiled code:
perl -Mlib::core::only -Mblib
For more information on the impossibility of sanely propagating this across module builds
without help from the build program, see
<http://www.shadowcat.co.uk/blog/matt-s-trout/tainted-love> - and for ways to achieve the
old --self-contained feature's results, look at App::FatPacker's tree function, and at
App::cpanminus's --local-lib-contained feature.
AUTHOR
Matt S. Trout <mst AT shadowcat.uk>
LICENSE
This library is free software under the same terms as perl itself.
COPYRIGHT
(c) 2010 the lib::core::only "AUTHOR" as specified above.
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