Thus DBI would no longer produce this particularly misleading error message

I couldn't get that to work ... I may well be missing something.

I tried a variety of the changes you mentioned, but whenever I comment out (in DBI.pm) "@ISA = qw(Exporter DynaLoader);" I get: 
F:\pscrpt>perl -MDBI -e "DBI::FIRSTKEY()"
Can't locate object method "dl_load_flags" via package "DBI" at F:/per
+lvc7/5.8.8/lib/DynaLoader.pm line 230.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at F:/perlvc7/site/5.8.8/lib/DBI.pm 
+line 262.
Compilation failed in require.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted.

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And if I don't comment out that line of code in DBI.pm I always get: 
F:\pscrpt>perl -MDBI -e "DBI::FIRSTKEY()"
Can't locate auto/DBI/FIRSTKEY.al in @INC (@INC contains: F:/perlvc7/5
+.8.8/lib F:/perlvc7/site/5.8.8/lib F:/perlvc7/site/lib .) at -e line 
+1

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I guess a patch to DBI.pm would be one simple way for me to see exactly what is required. I'd like to know how to change this behaviour and still use DynaLoader. Digest::MD5 gets it right, but it uses XSLoader instead.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^3: What is the /auto/ directory used for? (inheritance--) by syphilis
in thread What is the /auto/ directory used for? by nmerriweather

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