It looks to me like what's happening is that you're *running* perl 5.002 and MakeMaker is require-ing 5.00503</code>

Try these two commands:

which perl
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/path/you/got/from/the/previous/command/perl -V
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Read the output carefully. That will tell you which version of perl you run by default, the first one found on your PATH. Really, you only need issue perl -V to do that but the other stuff will give you useful diagnostic information. The moral: make sure that you call Makefile.PL with a perl interpreter that's at least version 5.00503.

HTH.

perl -e 'print "How sweet does a rose smell? "; chomp ($n = <STDIN>); 
+$rose = "smells sweet to degree $n"; *other_name = *rose; print "$oth
+er_name\n"'
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