First, let's simplify your code a bit.

In the .pl file, replace 

use Cwd;
use File::Basename;

BEGIN {
  my $dir = dirname($0);
  my $path;
  if ($dir =~ /^\//) {
    #--absolute path
    $path = $dir;
  } elsif ($dir eq ".") {
    #-- relative, current dir
    $path = getcwd();
  } else {
    #-- relative, but not from current dir
    $dir =~ s/^\.\///;
    $path = getcwd()."/$dir";
  }
  unshift(@INC, "$path/lib");
  unshift(@INC, "$path/lib-perl");
  unshift(@INC, "$path/lib-perl/sun4-solaris-64int");
}

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with 
use Cwd qw( realpath ); 
use File::Basename;

my $script_dir; BEGIN { $script_dir = dirname(realpath($0)); }

use lib "$script_dir/lib", "$script_dir/lib-perl";

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In the .pm files, remove the following 

use File::Basename;
use Cwd;

BEGIN {
  my $dir = dirname($0);
  my $path;
  if ($dir =~ /^\//) {
    #--absolute path
    $path = $dir;
  } elsif ($dir eq ".") {
    #-- relative, current dir
    $path = getcwd();
  } else {
    #-- relative, but not from current dir
    $dir =~ s/^\.\///;
    $path = getcwd()."/$dir";
  }
  unshift(@INC, "$path/lib");
  unshift(@INC, "$path/lib-perl");
}

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It makes no sense to tell perl where to find the library after it's already been found!

Now on to your question.

To determine the presence of an element I use the statement defined($ntCapabilities{$type}{'SW_PAR'}).

From where? The .pl file? There is no such variable there. You would have to export %ntCapabilities in order to do that (and roll out your own import since no module will help you export a lexical variable).

But since exporting variables (as oppose to functions) is rather fishy, it would be better to create an accessor (sub is_capable?) and export the accessor from Capability or use its full name. 

if (Capability::is_capable(...)) {
    ...
}

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In reply to Re^4: "use" modules inside modules by ikegami
in thread "use" modules inside modules by bogaertb

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