I'm using Text::xSV with perl 5.8.0 on RH9. I have not changed anything from the default install that came with RH9. I had to install the Text::xSV module in the user's directory. They call it with 
use lib '/home/foobar/perl_libs'; # user directory for perl modules
use Text::xSV;

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When there is an error processing something with Text::xSV they get:
Can't locate Carp/Heavy.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /home/foobar/perl_libs /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .) at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Carp.pm line 158, <FH> line 1.
Now I check if Heavy.pm is there:

$> locate Heavy.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Carp/Heavy.pm
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0/Exporter/Heavy.pm

/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.0 is like the 3rd entry in @INC so it should find it right?

I also looked in xSV.pm. 

package Text::xSV;
$VERSION = 0.11;
use strict;
use Carp;

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So there shouldn't be a problem right?

The only solution I found was to insert a use Carp; just before the use Text::xSV; I don't understand why this worked and I don't understand why there is a problem to start with. Can anyone explain?

Thanks

In reply to Carp::Heavy and Text::xSV by xorl

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