Hmm. If you can, consider upgrading Perl. Using 5.6.1 on HP-UX, I get:

syntax error at test.pm line 3, at EOF
Compilation failed in require at test.pl line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at test.pl line 1.
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Which is what I'd expect. Else it might be FreeBSD-specific.

HTH