Hello We get this error in our app using PERL 5.8.7

   Deep recursion on subroutine "CGI::Carp::warn" at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.7/diagnostics.pm line 506.,

From some googling it looks like a PERL bug. One place mentioned upgrading to 5.8.7.07

I have never seen an '.07' etc on a version before. Typing 'perl -v' doesnt give me that granularity. I dont know which release version we have.

We are on Solaris 10 using PERL 5.8.7.

We have installed quite a few PERL modules for this application ~30. I assume a new install of PERL 5.8.8 would require all our modules to be reinstalled.

Is there a patch to fix this bug? I havent seen a way to upgrade PERL and not break our modules (and therefore reinstall). Is that possible?

Thanks John

In reply to CGI::Carp::warn bug in 5.8.7 Deep recursion? by jbrose

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.