catmandu.yml can't be found if it is in the current directory

[phochste]

The catmandu.yml file need to be always in a higher directory than the executing script?

[vpeil]

Yes that's correct: in the same or in a higher directory. But you can specify the path:

Catmandu->load("examples/conf");
Catmandu->config;

[phochste]

My mistake. I had a perl module that did

package MyBad;

use Catmandu -load;

And other perl modules that did the same thing. I think the loading of configs went berserk