On my home system under Mac OS X Leopard, I seem to have broken /usr/bin/perl for certain scripts. For example,
dual-1-25:~/.cpan/build $ perl -MCPAN -e "shell"
IO object version 1.22 does not match bootstrap parameter 1.23 at /Sys
+tem/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/XSLoader.pm line 97
Compilation failed in require at /System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thr
+ead-multi-2level/IO/Handle.pm line 263.

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The older version (presumably Apple original) in /usr/local/bin has no such problem. Both versions say they're 5.8.8. Also, /usr/bin/perl (which takes precedence over /usr/local/bin/perl) is suspiciously small at 47KB compared to 1203KB for /usr/local/bin/perl.

I don't remember what I did to get to this state. The date on /usr/bin/perl is in Jan of this year, so maybe I built it from source. Re-installing XSLoader and IO::Handle (from CPAN using /usr/local/bin/perl) did not help.

What would you do to fix this? Copy or link /usr/bin/perl* from /usr/local/bin? Install a newer version in /usr/bin? Does anyone know if I install a new Apple XTools package, will it create new /usr/bin/perl*?

Thanks,
cmac

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