$FreeBSD$ For importers of the future Perl versions. BSDPAN operation depends on the fact it is loaded before system Perl modules. To achieve this, the semi-documented (it is described as undocumented in Perl documentation) define APPLLIB_EXP is used. Run Perl configure as follows (with other relevant arguments of course): sh Configure -Dccflags='-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/libdata/perl/BSDPAN"' Since FreeBSD uses its own Makefile to build Perl, it is necessary to duplicate this as an extra CFLAG. This resides currently in gnu/usr.bin/perl/Makefile.inc: CFLAGS+= '-DAPPLLIB_EXP="/usr/libdata/perl/BSDPAN"' If APPLLIB_EXP ever gets removed from Perl, some other way of putting /usr/libdata/perl/BSDPAN in the start of @INC must be devised. -Anton