"I feel like I'm taking mad pills here". Until 48 hours ago, my scripts with CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); all gave me useful information when they broke. Now all I get is Execution of foo.pl aborted due to compilation errors. The full info still appears in my error log. I didn't change anything! And to test it, I wrote: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

print header, h1('hello');

#$test = 1;

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Which returns

Hello

... and then when I remove the comment, instead of getting 
[Wed Dec 12 13:02:40 2001] carptest.pl: Execution of carptest.pl abort
+ed due to compilation errors. 
[Wed Dec 12 13:02:40 2001] carptest.pl: Global symbol "$test" requires
+ explicit package name at carptest.pl line 9.

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I get... yes, you guessed, 
Execution of foo.pl aborted due to compilation errors

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Well hell, you don't say? I think I could have worked that out...

Has anybody got any idea where I might start looking for the solution?

§ George Sherston

In reply to CGI::Carp won't send fatalsToBrowser by George_Sherston

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