Either perl itself during compilation or the package maintainer of your distribution who is setting it elsewhere.
You can put Perl stuff anywhere you want and add any directory to @INC, but you can't add "." while using the taint mode.
You can add the directory to PERL5LIB or
you can add use lib 'directory'; to your perl script or
you can push your directory onto @INC in a BEGIN block like
BEGIN { push @INC,"/home/you/yourperlstuff/";}
(Really depends on your personal preferences and what else do you want to do..
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