And end up with programs that only work from B, and its sibling directories?

From my reading of the OP's original post, he wanted a relative program and module structure. This works for an A sub dir holding the program Foo-use, and a parallel level module dir B, holding a module Foo1.pm. The relative nature of the directories means they can be installed anywhere together, and the module in B will be found.

Make 2 subdirs anywhere in an arbitrary directory, named A and B

In A, the program:

#!/usr/bin/perl use lib "../B"; use Foo1 foo; use Tk; # put in to show that @inc is still working fine foo(); print "Goodbye\n";

In the parallel B module directory, the module Foo1.pm

#module Foo1.pm located in B package Foo1; require Exporter; @ISA = qw|Exporter|; @EXPORT_OK = qw|foo|; sub foo { print "Hello World, I'm here\n"; } 1;

Run it:

$ ./A/Foo-use Hello World Goodbye

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In reply to Re^3: Directory Structure by zentara
in thread Directory Structure by prakash1987

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