Dear Perlmonks :), I have some packages in /home/avarus/perl/myPackages/*.pm and what I want to do is to use that dir as a lib directory which is generally not a problem, but the first problem exists when I do the following: 
my $libDir = "/home/avarus/perl/myPackages/";
use lib "$libDir";

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This code does not really sets the lib path as expected but if I hard code this path instead of using this $libDir variable it simply works. So I decided to use a hardcoded lib path for testing purposes which exposed the next problem. In the directory "/home/avarus/perl/myPackages/" there is a package called "test.pm" which defines package "Test". 
use lib "/home/avarus/perl/myPackages/";
use test; # works

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this example works, but... 
use lib "/home/avarus/perl/myPackages/";
my $packageName = "test";
use $packageName; # does not work, segfaults

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At the moment I am working around this problem with "require" and bla::blub constructs but then I don't have the functionality I want to make use of as described in perldoc perlobj. When I solved all those problems the next one is how I can create a new instance like this: 
my $objName = "foo";
my $testObj = new $objName();

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this of course does not work, but that's like I wanna do that :). It would be great if you can give me some hints. Thanks in advance, Andreas Schipplock.

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