Perl novice here so bear with me.

Recently we upgraded our development server from AIX 5.2 ML 8 to AIX 5.2 ML 10, which was supposed to leave perl untouched. This morning one of my team members recieved these errors running a script.

Here are the errors I am receiving:
MIME::Base64 object version 2.12 does not match bootstrap parameter 3.07 at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/5.8.0 /aix-thread-multi/XSLoader.pm line 106.

Compilation failed in require at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Words.pm line 85. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Words.pm line 85.

Compilation failed in require at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Head.pm line 123. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Head.pm line 123.

Compilation failed in require at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Entity.pm line 235. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/opt/perl5/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Entity.pm line 235.

Compilation failed in require at /tledevl/scripts/perl/hms_send_email_attachment.pl line 18. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /tledevl/scripts/perl/hms_send_email_attachment.pl line 18.

The same script was run on our test server which is still at ML 8 and it worked.

I looked at the perl files and the script and did compares between the development and test versions, and i got no differences, so they did not change.

It looks like the failures are occurring on statements like the following

+18 use MIME::Entity;

above is the line from our script that is failing; the ones in the .pm files are failing on similar lines where a use MIME is happening.

Any idea what is going on here?

In reply to AIX upgrade MIME problem by jc0517

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