Perl compilation errors

Bradpsu has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

All of a sudden I am unable to run any perl scripts. For example when I issue from a command prompt:
perl -e 0

I get the following:
perl -e 0
syntax error at -e line 1, near "0"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

All programs also crash at the first command. Has anyone ever experienced this?

Comment on Perl compilation errors

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Re: Perl compilation errors by earthboundmisfit (Chaplain) on Sep 13, 2001 at 00:28 UTC
Need more info such as OS and Perl version. It sounds to me like a Win32 file mapping or path problem, but that's only because it's what I deal with (too often).	[reply]
Re: Re: Perl compilation errors by Bradpsu (Initiate) on Sep 13, 2001 at 00:43 UTC
This is Perl version 5.005_03 running on Red Hat Linux 6.2 Everything has worked great on this box for a long time, and all of a sudden today I am getting these errors.	[reply]
Re: Re: Re: Perl compilation errors by nardo (Friar) on Sep 13, 2001 at 01:10 UTC
If perl was installed via rpm, does rpm -V perl produce any output?	[reply]
Re: Perl compilation errors by chromatic (Archbishop) on Sep 13, 2001 at 01:13 UTC
What's the output of perl -V? Also, what's the output of <code>which perl<code>?	[reply]
Re: Perl compilation errors by earthboundmisfit (Chaplain) on Sep 13, 2001 at 18:33 UTC
What's changed on the box? If you `su root -p` and then run your one liner does it balk? If not, you have a permissions problem on the Perl directories.	[reply]