RHEL 3 may have the bug with compiling Perl modules with UTF-8 locale that Red Hat 9 had. The bug in Perl 5.8.0 uses the locale to determine if stdout is Unicode and Red Hat set the default locale to include UTF-8 (en_US.UTF-8). Unluckily, this causes corrupt Makefiles when installing modules.

The solution is to set the locale before installing Perl modules. You could set this for root by default, or just before running Perl installs. 

export LANG=C

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In reply to Re: Compiling Digest-MD5-2.33 problem by iburrell
in thread Compiling Digest-MD5-2.33 problem by mikeps

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