It seems that if you have an object in @INC, and that object overloads stringification, and it stringifies to the same as something else in @INC, then when lib.pm de-dupes the @INC list it sometimes (depending on the order of entries in the list) removes the object. The bug is this line of vaguely golfish noise in 5.12.1's lib.pm: @INC = grep { ++$names{$_} == 1 } @INC; Has this been fixed in 5.13.x? If not, I'll get on to it. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig 23.5 degrees of axial tilt is the reason for the seasonThread Next