I'm using in my program in my program the function dircopy from File::Copy::Recursive. This worked fine so fast, but recently (and, no, I am not aware that I have changed something in the call to this function), I get error message like 

Attempt to free unreferenced scalar: SV 0x3f7b6d8, Perl interpreter: 0
+x15d4884 at e:/Tools/Perl587/lib/File/Copy.pm line 91.

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when calling it. Note that the error is triggered in File::Copy, which is a standard module. Looking at the source of my version of Copy.pm, I see that the offending line in File/Copy.pm is the line containing the if expression 
    if (!$from_a_handle && !$to_a_handle && -d $to && ! -d $from) {
        $to = _catname($from, $to);
    }

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which looks pretty innocent to me. I googled for this error message, and though I found other people also observing this error in Copy.pm, I didn't find any solution to this. Any ideas what I could do here?

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Ronald Fischer <ynnor@mm.st>

In reply to Attempt to free unreferenced scalar in Copy.pm by rovf

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