You are correct. The "install" functionality of Inline has never worked brilliantly. Check out Inline::Module instead.

Hey, thanks for the advice ... I tried to use Inline::Module instead but it doesn't look one to one replacement. Can you suggest about the following problem?

If i generate a tarball from my package using make dist the inline stub generated is getting substituted with the DynaLoader version. Although if I'm running make install - it keeps using the standard one like this:

use strict; use warnings;
package pdlinc::Inline;
use Inline::Module stub => 'v2';

To my understanding this should work same as make dist, shouldn't it ?

The above, if I understand you right, is all build-time stuff. The purpose of I::M is that after it is installed, only the DynaLoader will be in the installed version, and it will all "just work". Have you tried that? You'd probably be best off using a "perlbrew"-ed perl to try it, rather than your system perl.