I'm running Perl 5.8 on AIX 5.2. I'm trying to modularize a program for maintenance sake, and having no luck. I'd also like to be able to pull in just the functions I need at runtime with require, but I'm willing to do without that.

I pulled out several sets of functions and placed each set in a separate .pl file, and then ran pl2pm on each file. I put them in a subdirectory of the current directory called focus, and added "use lib ./focus" to the front of the main program. However, when I run the program, I still get output such as the following:

Can't locate base in @INC(@INC contains: ./focus /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.0/aix-thread-multi /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.0 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/aix-thread-multi /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl .) at sl_observe.pl line 216.

I've tried using the modules in the same directory, in the subdirectory, with different names, etc. Following is the block of code containing my require statement: 

foreach $focus_area (@focus_areas_list) {
	if ($areas =~ /$focus_area/) {
		chop $focus_area;
		push @focus_areas, $focus_area;
		require "$focus_area";
	}
}

In reply to can't find my module? by arootbeer

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