I wonder why perl 5.26.2 on macos 10.13.4 ignores my local copy of B at b.pm but perl 5.38.2 on macos 14.3 tries to use it and gets confused?

I don't think that's actually happening.
On a case-sensitive system (which yours is ?) "use B;" will not load b.pm because of the case mismatch.
UPDATE: Hmmm ... apparently macos systems are typically case-insensitive, so I could be wrong there.

Also, I think that 1.68 is the version that ships with perl-5.26.2, so it's more likely to be loading that B.pm .

In addition to "use lib" directives, also check to see whether the PERL5LIB environment variable is pulling additional paths into @INC.
Maybe it's set for your perl environment, but the apache environment doesn't see it.

Anyway, you're on the right track.

Cheers,
Rob

In reply to Re^3: object version does not match by syphilis
in thread object version does not match by Anonymous Monk

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