note Anonymous Monk <p> use :nosearch, as in <p> <tt> perl Makefile.PL INC="-Ithis -Ithat/the/other" LIBS="<b>:nosearch</b> -Lthat/the/other -lblahblah.a -l/that/the/other/foo.a" </tt> <p> If it works it will work, if not you may need <tt> DEFINE="-DSOMETIHNG ... " </tt> or if Makefile.PL is being clever you may need to [id://939683|edit Makefile.PL and prefix :nosearch] 1014012 1014012 2