Generally, I use moritz' second-last listed approach, "Search relatively to the installation path of the binary" (well, of the script). 

use File::Spec;
my $project_dir = File::Spec->catdir( File::Spec->rel2abs(__FILE__), F
+ile::Spec->updir() );

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I put that in my main script, right near the top, maybe in a BEGIN block if I have to: 
use File::Spec;
my $project_dir;
BEGIN { $project_dir = File::Spec->catdir( File::Spec->rel2abs(__FILE_
+_), File::Spec->updir() ); }

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and then everything is relative to that. I used to use this to create my @INC path, but have recently been shown rlib which takes care of that for me now :-)

In reply to Re: Directory independent processing by Tanktalus
in thread Directory independent processing by biohisham

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