I have a list of modules which, for simplicities sake I shall say live in a directory /modules/xxxx/ where xxxx is pseudo random (certainly not known at time of writing).

There is a common perl package which is used by most of these modules, they will also require their own packages etc.

for simplicities sake, it would be nice if I could have a "use common qw( :standard );" line common to each module, with appropriate "use lib '/systemlibs'"; This bit I have working quite happily.

The trouble is, I'd also like to be able to include /modules/xxxx/libs by default, with this detail being implicitly set by the use common bit.

The only trouble is, the "common" module is unaware of the modules name (the xxxx bit) until runtime, and use lib "..." is deduced at compile time.

Does anyone have any ideas?

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