Thought I might share my experience this morning in the hopes it can save others some aggravation.

I'm running Fedora 8, and after installing the daily batch of updates, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel broke with the error that weak references were not supported in this version of Perl. A little bit of poking around, and it looks like the Fedora update included an update for Perl that uses an implementation of Scalar::Util that does not support weak references.

Problematically, the version of the cpan script that I had (not sure if it was updated or not) doesn't recognize the -f option, and so you can't force the install that way. Of course, it also sees that Scalar::Util is up to date.

The solution was to enter a cpan shell, and then run force install Scalar::Util. After it rebuilt, Spreadsheet::ParseExcel seems to be running like a champ.

In reply to Rebuilding Scalar::Util after Fedora Update by starX

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