After some offline conversations, I'm re-submitting this patch to remove . from @INC by default. A Configure variable will still be provided but it will be to put perl back in its old mode where . was at the end of @INC. ./Configure -Dunsafe_inc There are 4 commits. Attaching them to the case appears to be a little noisy, so for the time being, you can track them in the pull request link I'm providing for reference. https://github.com/toddr/perl/pull/1 or https://github.com/toddr/perl.git branch pop_INC --- via perlbug: queue: perl5 status: open https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127810Thread Next