Can't replicate what you're reporting... (Suse Linux 10.1 here — though that shouldn't matter)

I tried it with several versions of Perl from 5.8.4 - 5.8.8. I always get 

$ PERL5LIB=~/foo:~/bar perl -V
  (...)
  %ENV:
    PERL5LIB="/home/ab/foo:/home/ab/bar"
  @INC:
    /home/ab/foo
    /home/ab/bar
    /usr/local/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8/x86_64-linux
    /usr/local/perl-5.8.8/lib/5.8.8
    (...)

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(same thing if you export PERL5LIB in a separate shell command, of course...)

Could you provide a ready to run test case that demonstrates your problem?

In reply to Re: @INC: search sequence of directories by almut
in thread @INC: search sequence of directories by kdjantzen

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