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Perl 5.8.0 & dyld: perl Undefined symbols
Authored by: carsten on May 13, '03 07:30:15PM

Perl 5.8.0 changed enough from the 5.6 included with Mac OS X that a small handful of binary modules are incompatible, and they simply need to be recompiled (such as the popular Storable.pm). This is a known and documented perl issue (from the developers of perl itself), even if the error messages are too technical for many people to understand, such as me.

Fortunately the fink developers have been aware of and discussing this perl module version incompatibility and are presently writing upgrades to fink to provide seamless transition to the newer perl and any modules which must be compiled specificially against the newer version.

This is not a problem specific to Mac OS X, Debian and other Lunix have been affected too.

In the mean time you'll have to delete all XM perl binaries beforehand if you decide to upgrade perl on your own.



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