Hi All, I am quite a regular user of PERL and I found a strange problem with a module loading.
Basically, we have a module x.pm which is installed in the lib path of a particular perl installation.That is I am using perl-5.8.1 and it is installed as /proj/myself/bin/perl , then the module x.pm is installed in /proj/myself/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/x.pm (since I am using perl 5.8.1 ).
Now I have a script y.pl which uses x.pm module ie. y.pl would look something like this:

/proj/myself/bin/perl -w
use x;


Now while invocating this script,I want this module (x.pm i.e.) to be picked up from a different location,say /u/myself/somescrap/ directory.

So I would do something like this:

/proj/myself/bin/perl -I/u/myself/somescrap y.pl

and since -I unshifts @INC with the path specified,the module should be picked up from /u/myself/somescrap location right? (as long as it exist,right?)
But,alas,it is being picked up from the standard installed location /proj/myself/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.1/x.pm.
What I'd love to mention is that x.pm internally uses some more modules (say z.pm,a.pm,b.pm etc.) and some of these modules uses "Config" module.
My first impression is that Config module is doing some funda based on the path of the perl executable that we are using and is "forcing" x.pm to be picked up from its installed location.
Can someone help me out?
~Karthik

In reply to problem with module loading by karthikpa

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