It's not normal for 'perl -V' and $Config{osvers} to disagree on the value of 'osvers'. For as long as that discrepancy exists the problem will persist. Do you happen to have more than one version of Config.pm and/or Config_heavy.pl ? I'm wondering if there's one version in perl/site/lib and another version in perl/lib. If there is such a duplication, rename the file that specifies the 'osvers' as 4.0 (so that it can't be found). Other hacks you could try include commenting out that test in Errno.pm.

But, somewhere along the way, someone has done something that ought not have been done, and that's what's causing this strange breakage. The one solution that will work is to completely remove your entire ActivePerl installation and re-install all over again (either 819 or 822 - won't matter) - but that probably involves some inconvenience for you. We could probably hack up a solution that doesn't involve re-installation, if only we could work out what action it was that caused the breakage in the first place.

At some stage around build 819 (I think) ActiveState altered the order of the @INC listing and they changed the directory that contains the core modules. I'm wondering whether that is involved in the problem you're seeing ... but it's hard to tell from here :-)

Cheers,
Rob

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