You can always unshift directories into @INC whenever you want. What you haven't specified is how are you going to let the program know what directory it should unshift. Once you get it into the program, it's easy:

## File: FOO.pm
package FOO;
print "loading foo\n";
sub foo { print "in foo::foo\n"; }
1;

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## main program
use autouse 'FOO' => qw/foo/;
unshift @INC, '.';
foo;
__END__
loading foo
in foo::foo

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David Serrano

In reply to Re: use lib and use autouse 'module' by Hue-Bond
in thread use lib and use autouse 'module' by cvg2mco

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