auto directorie ?

[JONL]

Could anyone tell me where I might find some info on the purpose of the
auto directories

 

[J. Gleixner]

Could anyone tell me where I might find some info on the purpose of the
auto directories

perldoc AutoSplit

I'm guessing that's what you're after, otherwise be more specific.

 

[JONL]

Ok more specifically if I were to look for DBI directories under my
perl root dir
(WITS2DEV)-/home/bdlpxxx/features/upgrade/BIW>$ find /usr/perl586 -name
DBI
I d get something like this:

/usr/perl586/lib/site_perl/5.8.6/sun4-solaris/auto/DBI
/usr/perl586/lib/site_perl/5.8.6/sun4-solaris/DBI

My question is what is the piurpose of the .../auto/ dir

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

Ok more specifically

More specifically compared to what?

Please provide some context when you post a reply.

if I were to look for DBI directories under my
perl root dir
(WITS2DEV)-/home/bdlpxxx/features/upgrade/BIW>$ find /usr/perl586 -name
DBI
I d get something like this:

/usr/perl586/lib/site_perl/5.8.6/sun4-solaris/auto/DBI
/usr/perl586/lib/site_perl/5.8.6/sun4-solaris/DBI

My question is what is the piurpose of the .../auto/ dir

perldoc AutoLoader:

The AutoLoader module works with the AutoSplit module and the
"__END__"
token to defer the loading of some subroutines until they are used
rather than loading them all at once.

....

... When an undefined subroutine in is called in a client module of
AutoLoader, AutoLoader's AUTOLOAD subroutine attempts to locate the
subroutine in a file with a name related to the location of the file
from which the client module was read. As an example, if POSIX.pm is
located in /usr/local/lib/perl5/POSIX.pm, AutoLoader will look for
perl
subroutines POSIX in /usr/local/lib/perl5/auto/POSIX/*.al,

....

etc etc so on and so forth.

Please consult the documentation first.

Please read the posting guidelines for this group.

Sinan