[Koha] "Add path to @INC" problem revisited - work-around proposal

[Anders Wandahl]

Seems like many people have had problems to include the 
/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules path
to the @INC - including me using Debian Sarge - but at least I have a 
work-around which seems
to do the trick...

Giving up adding the path to @INC I considered adding the "use lib" 
command in all perl-files
but there are too many of them. My work-around is simply doing 
search-and-replace on multiple
files, i.e. I executed the following command standing in /usr/local/koha:

rpl -eR -xpl '#!/usr/bin/perl' '#!/usr/bin/perl\nuse lib 
"/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules";' *

The command recursively replaces

#!/usr/bin/perl 

with

#!/usr/bin/perl
use lib "/usr/local/koha/intranet/modules";

in all files with .pl as extension.


You may have to install the "rpl" program, but it's available as a 
package at least in Debian.
This worked for me, hopefully it will help others as well...

Best wishes,

/Anders Wandahl
"e-Math for Africa"
http://math.golonka.se