I'm running Slackware64-current and have recently installed all of the newest updates. Also running GCC-5.2 and KDE-5 from Alien. After applying the latest Slack updates perl suddenly stopped working. Perl -v returns the version info but anything else I try that uses perl just seg faults. eg - 
root@missi:/var/log$ shorewall start
Compiling using Shorewall 5.0.1.1...
/usr/share/shorewall/lib.cli-std: line 369: 11333 Segmentation fault  
+    $PERL $debugflags $pc $options $@

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or 
root@missi:/var/log$ perldoc perl
Segmentation fault

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or 
root@missi:/var/log$ perl -MCPAN -e 'shell'
Segmentation fault

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I uninstalled perl and rebuilt and installed to no avail.

No helpful info in syslog or messages other than the fact that perl seg faulted.

I haven't got a clue how to trouble shoot this and would appreciate any helpful suggestions that come to mind. Thanks in advance.

In reply to Perl 5.22 no longer works by 3rensho

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