blib(3p)

blib3p

Use makemaker's uninstalled version of a package

Usage

 perl -Mblib script [args...]
 perl -Mblib=dir script [args...]

Overview

Looks for MakeMaker-like 'blib' directory structure starting in dir (or current directory) and working back up to five levels of '..'.

Intended for use on command line with -M option as a way of testing arbitrary scripts against an uninstalled version of a package.

However it is possible to :

 use blib;
 or
 use blib '..';

etc. if you really must.

Releases

32 releases since OpenBSD 5.0; the text changed 20 times.

  1. 5.0–5.3
  2. 5.4–5.5
  3. 5.6
  4. 5.7
  5. 5.8–5.9
  6. 6.0
  7. 6.1
  8. 6.2
  9. 6.3–6.4
  10. 6.5
  11. 6.6
  12. 6.7
  13. 6.8
  14. 6.9–7.2
  15. 7.3
  16. 7.4
  17. 7.5
  18. 7.6
  19. 7.7–7.8
  20. 7.9
  21. 8.0

Bugs

Pollutes global name space for development only task.

Author

Nick Ing-Simmons [email protected]

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.