Aside from mispelling "lib", the order of execution is totally wrong. Your code is equivalent to:
BEGIN { require Config; Config::->import(); require lib; lib::->import('./lib64/perl5/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi'); require lib; lib::->import('./lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-m +ulti'); require lib; lib::->import('./lib64/perl5/5.8.5/i386-thread-multi'); require lib; lib::->import('./lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-thread-multi'); if ($Config{archname64}) { # empty } else { # empty }

Note that all four directories are added to @INC unconditionally because use statements are executed as soon as they are compiled. Fix:

BEGIN { use Config; require lib; if ($Config{archname64}) { lib->import(qw( ./lib64/perl5/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi ./lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/x86_64-linux-thread-multi )); } else { lib->import(qw( ./lib64/perl5/5.8.5/i386-thread-multi ./lib64/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5/i386-thread-multi )); } }

Update: Markup changes.


In reply to Re^2: How to instrust Perl to load the right modules based on architecture? by ikegami
in thread How to instrust Perl to load the right modules based on architecture? by sunshine_august

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