Just to satisfy my curiosity: I have installed on my Windows system ActiveState Perl 5.8.8, and Cygwin with Perl 5.10.1. On a cmd.exe shell, perl -V displays: 

  @INC:
    C:/Perl588_822/site/lib
    C:/Perl588_822/lib
    .

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which is exactly what I expect. In a Cygwin bash shell, perl -V displays: 
  @INC:
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin
    /usr/lib/perl5/5.10
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10
    /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8
    /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8
    .

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The funny part are the two directories mentioning Perl 5.8. Neither do they exist, nor do I think that they appear as side-effect from my 5.8.8 installation (which was already present at the time when I installed Cygwin Perl), because the version number says 5.8, not 5.8.8.

These extra directories in the @INC path don't harm, but I'm curious to know where they come from.

If someone reading this, happens to have installed Cygwin Perl 5.10.1, could you please check your @INC and let me know whether you have these directories too?
-- 
Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Cygwin Perl: Question about default @INC by rovf

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