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Loading Perl Modules from non-standard directories

How to load Perl modules using non-standard directories?

I download the trace module from cpan website and put into non-standard directories(/home/nrama/perl-script). but It doesn't taking my non-standard directories while executing below script. please let me know how to resolve this issue.

Trace module URL:

https://metacpan.org/pod/release/JV/Debug-Trace-0.05/lib/Debug/Trace.pm

Error:

syntax error at shift.pl line 3, near "use Trace." Execution of shift.pl aborted due to compilation errors.

Sample script:-

use strict;
use lib ("/home/nrama/perl-script");
use Trace.pm;

func('Nataraj', 'vino', 'mano' );
sub func {
my $name_1 = shift;
my $name_2 = shift;
my $name_3 = shift;
print "say hello to $name_1 $name_2 $name_3\n";
}

Note: Using perl, v5.6.0

Solution 
  • use Trace.pm;

    is not valid Perl, thus the syntax error. That should be

    use Debug::Trace;

    Furthermore, it makes no sense to harcode an absolute path in a script. You should remove

    use lib ("/home/nrama/perl-script");

    and either set env var PERL5LIB to that path in the login script

    export PERL5LIB="$HOME/perl-script"

    or replace it with a relative path to the script such as

    use FindBin qw( $RealBin );
use lib $RealBin;

    or

    use FindBin qw( $RealBin );
use lib "$RealBin/lib";