Hello again,

o.k., first with regard to the version stuff:

[user@server bin]$ perl -E 'use pp; say $INC{"pp.pm"}; say $pp::VERSIO
+N;'
/usr/local/share/perl5/pp.pm
1.050
[user@server bin]$ which pp
/usr/local/bin/pp
[user@server bin]$ pp -V
PAR Packager, version 1.050 (PAR version 1.016)
Copyright 2002-2009 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>

Neither this program nor the associated "parl" program impose any
licensing restrictions on files generated by their execution, in
accordance with the 8th article of the Artistic License:

        "Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is
        always permitted provided that the use of this Package is embe
+dded;
        that is, when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's
        interfaces visible to the end user of the commercial distribut
+ion.
        Such use shall not be construed as a distribution of this Pack
+age."

Therefore, you are absolutely free to place any license on the resulti
+ng
executable, as long as the packed 3rd-party libraries are also availab
+le
under the Artistic License.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify i
+t
under the same terms as Perl itself.  There is NO warranty; not even f
+or
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[user@server bin]$ which perl
/usr/bin/perl
[user@server bin]$ perl -vperl -E 'use pp; say $INC{"pp.pm"}; say $pp:
+:VERSION;'

This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Copyright 1987-2009, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.

[user@server bin]$ which pp
/usr/local/bin/pp
[user@server bin]$ pp -V
PAR Packager, version 1.050 (PAR version 1.016)
Copyright 2002-2009 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>

Neither this program nor the associated "parl" program impose any
licensing restrictions on files generated by their execution, in
accordance with the 8th article of the Artistic License:

        "Aggregation of this Package with a commercial distribution is
        always permitted provided that the use of this Package is embe
+dded;
        that is, when no overt attempt is made to make this Package's
        interfaces visible to the end user of the commercial distribut
+ion.
        Such use shall not be construed as a distribution of this Pack
+age."

Therefore, you are absolutely free to place any license on the resulti
+ng
executable, as long as the packed 3rd-party libraries are also availab
+le
under the Artistic License.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify i
+t
under the same terms as Perl itself.  There is NO warranty; not even f
+or
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[user@server bin]$ which perl
/usr/bin/perl
[user@server bin]$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.10.1 (*) built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

Copyright 1987-2009, Larry Wall

Perl may be copied only under the terms of either the Artistic License
+ or the
GNU General Public License, which may be found in the Perl 5 source ki
+t.

Complete documentation for Perl, including FAQ lists, should be found 
+on
this system using "man perl" or "perldoc perl".  If you have access to
+ the
Internet, point your browser at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Pa
+ge.
[download]

So far I have no indication that different Perl versions are mixed up on this box.

BUT:

I found something very interesting (and weird at the same time):

program.pl is intended to run on windows and linux boxes as well. We use a Win 2012 server with Strawberry Perl 5.28.2 installed, and, guess, I find Static.pm installed in the directory C:\Strawberry\perl\site\lib\PAR\StrippedPARL, although PAR:Packer on this machine is of version 1.049. And

pp -B -o program.exe program.pl

works flawlessly on Windows 2012.

It seems that the Strawberry guys bundled the "old" modules Static.pm (and Dynamic.pm) into this quite recent Perl (PAR::Packer) distribution. Really embarrassing!

Any ideas how to proceed? (o.k., I will, just to experiment, copy over Static.pm and Dynamic.pm (from cpan) into the appropriate directory on the Linux machine, but I think this is not only quick (provided it works), but very very DIRTY :->)

Totally different question:

When I post my questions here I use an "ordinary" text editor to prepare the text, insert the <p>, </p>, etc. by hand (!) and copy it over to the text box on this site. Inserting the tags is time consuming. I guess that there is a much easier way. How do You do this?