Indeed, as you suggest I can put the RequestAgent.pm file into directory 'lib' and add "use lib 'lib';" to Client.pm prior to "use RequestAgent;".

This works as desired when I use the -Mblib command line argument to tell Perl where to find my libraries, if I the "use lib" directive in Client.pm contains a path for 'lib' which is relative to the directory specified by -Mblib. This is good.

But when I try to run "make test" from the lib/My/Client directory, I find that I get the following error: 

Can't locate RequestAgent.pm in @INC (@INC contains: lib blib/arch bli
+b/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/i386-linux ...(snip snip)... .) at blib/li
+b/My/Client.pm line 18.

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*unless* I either:
  1. tweak the "use lib" line in Client.pm gives the *full path* to 'lib' (horrors), or
  2. move RequestAgent.pm into lib/My/Client/ and tweak Client.pm to "use lib 'lib/my/Client'"
Since I hate hardcoded file paths I find myself forced to use the second option.

But this seems lame, since in order to properly maintain both packages in the same directory I'll need to manually hack the local Makefile - or become enough of a MakeMaker guru that I can intelligently hack the upstream Makefile.PL instead.

Am I missing another option (perhaps something more obvious) here? Again, my goal here is simply to cleanly override the LWP credentials handler.

In reply to Re^2: How to define a package using a tweaked version of LWP::UserAgent? by pwolfenden
in thread How to define a package using a tweaked version of LWP::UserAgent? by pwolfenden

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