AutoLoader no longer looks for .al files in the same place when I write my own AUTOLOAD

ehdonhon has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Monks,

I'm having trouble geting an object I have written to do what I want with the AutoLoader module. I have created a new perl module with h2xs -X and have written a number of functions. Whenever I make && make install the module, I can use it and call my object contructor's new method via my $obj = new PackageName without any problems. However, when I modify my code so it includes the following:

use AutoLoader;  ## Not importing AUTOLOAD method.
sub AUTOLOAD {
    goto &AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD;
}
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The code still compiles, but I have errors when I try to call the constructor method:

Can't locate auto/.al in @INC (@INC contains:

My knowledge of how AutoLoader is pretty much limited to what I have read in the perldoc, but if I'm calling the new method, should it be looking for auto/packagname/new.al? And if not, why doesn't this fail whenever I bypass my AUTOLOAD sub and just import the AUTOLOAD method from AutoLoader?

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Re: AutoLoader no longer looks for .al files in the same place when I write my own AUTOLOAD by ehdonhon (Curate) on Nov 14, 2001 at 04:44 UTC
DOH! Found the answer about 3 minutes after I posted my question. I needed to add the following to my AUTOLOAD sub: `$AutoLoader::AUTOLOAD = $mypackage::AUTOLOAD` [download] Makes sense now that I think about it.	[reply] [d/l]