Like chromatic, I'm slightly unsure about the nature of the problem, so feel free to post a clarification in this thread if this isn't the answer you need. That said, I recall an issue that matches up with your complaint when I did roughly what you've just done (upgraded to 5.8.0). The problem was that the lib path started in the wrong place: the previous version of the module (in /System/Library, as I recall) was being found before the more recently installed one (which was probably in /Library, off the top of my head).

The non-recompiling solution was to set PERL5LIB in your environment to the directory your 5.8.0 modules were installed in (/Library/Perl, if my guesses above are right)--it's probably being searched already, so this will make it be searched twice in under certain circumstances, but this is not, I assure you, a significant performance issue. ;-)

I'll post an update with the correct paths when I get home tonight, if those aren't they. Good luck!

Update: as it happens, those were they, but I figured I'd update anyway to relieve the minds of any future readers. The relevant output of perl -V is 

  %ENV:
    PERL5LIB="/Library/Perl"
  @INC:
    /Library/Perl/darwin
    /Library/Perl
    /System/Library/Perl/darwin
    /System/Library/Perl
    /Library/Perl/darwin
    /Library/Perl
    /Library/Perl
    /Network/Library/Perl/darwin
    /Network/Library/Perl
    /Network/Library/Perl
    .

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In reply to Re: Perl 5.8.0 and Mac OS X by ChemBoy
in thread Perl 5.8.0 and Mac OS X by jakeeboy

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