Re: [Lxr-dev] Searching ./lib

[Malcolm B. <ma...@br...>]

Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> Forst of all: I've just cvs co'ed the current LXR. It's fantastic!
> It ./genxref's my CVS tree into a postgres based DB, and it
> delivers web pages as it should. The configuration changed
> quite a bit, but I got through is once more:-) So: It's *good*
> *work*!

Thank you - it's nice to know that the lxr is appreciated.  The latest
release should be a lot better than previous ones - a lot of cleanup &
debugging has gone on.

> Why did you do this change? For me, it breaks finding all that
> stuff in ./lib . Or is there another workaround for this I
> missed?

The short answer is that I removed this because it wasn't working for
me.  Even with this line, sometimes I would get "not found" errors.  I
could never determine exactly why it would fail sometimes and work
others, so I removed this line as a contributor to the chaos.  The
work-around that I use is to explicitly link the lxr/lib directory into
my /usr/lib/perrl5/site_perl directory, or to add the right path to the
startup.perl script in the mod_perl distribution.

Neither of these are ideal, but equally having that line in didn't seem
to work reliably either.  If it is helping some people I'm happy to
re-instate it, but I'd really rather discover precisely why the right
librarys are sometimes not found, and make sure to really fix things. 
Any volunteers to track this down are very welcome!

Cheers,

Malcolm