Yes, I really ought to set a PERL5LIB Environment Variable, but that is a messy option since every user using my script would have to set PERL5LIB. Well there aren't many users on my machine, but since these scripts are run as cron jobs, root would have to have PERL5LIB set too.

The REAL problem is that @INC is hard-coded into the Perl binary, and Ubuntu/Debian have decided to set it to

/etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.18.2 /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.2 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.18 /usr/share/perl/5.18 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .

So clearly they expect you to use /usr/local/lib/perl/5.18.2 or /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.2 for your personal libraries, but if your private library includes any C-coded stuff it does not work. Seems like a Ubuntu/Debian Bug to me, and I am minded to report it as such.

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