There is a point which you need to clarify: is the warning the issue you wish to fix, or is perl invoking the wrong version of xyz? Obviously, the latter is a serious issue since you are getting incorrect behavior. However, if the issue is simply the warning, this is certainly an appropriate time to suppress the warning. Warnings pop-up when you do something that is potentially but not necessarily problematic. In this case, both A and B export a subroutine xyz and you know it, so the warning has served its purpose. In this case, try the code: 

use A ;
  eval {
     no warnings 'redefine';
     use B ;
     # do stuff which only requires B
  }
  # do stuff which only requires A

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Alternatively, you could modify your import behavior. If A.pm and B.pm are in-house, consider modifying them to use EXPORT_OK in place of EXPORT - see Exporter

In reply to Re: subroutine xyz redefined at ... by kennethk
in thread subroutine xyz redefined at ... by jeanluca

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