Update: Resolved the issue myself by doing rm -rf ~/.cpan, since I normally run CPAN as root. I must have run it as my regular user once on accident.

I haven't intentionally changed anything on my system, but I just started getting these error messages when trying to perldoc anything: 
Global symbol "%Config" requires explicit package name at /System/Libr
+ary/Perl/5.8.1/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 53.
Global symbol "%Config" requires explicit package name at /System/Libr
+ary/Perl/5.8.1/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 56.
Global symbol "%Config" requires explicit package name at /System/Libr
+ary/Perl/5.8.1/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 57.
Global symbol "%Config" requires explicit package name at /System/Libr
+ary/Perl/5.8.1/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 57.
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted at /System/Library/Pe
+rl/5.8.1/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 66.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/perldoc line 8.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/perldoc line 8.

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Any troubleshooting tips or leads? I've been checking file and directory permissions in my system libraries but so far nothing looks wrong (all world-readable). I know I haven't edited any code in the modules themselves.

I force-reinstalled Pod::Perldoc but that didn't help.

In reply to Perldoc issues (update: resolved) by kwaping

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