It's hard to say what goes wrong. You talk about 20k lines of code being evalled, but you only show a few. There are known problems with eval, which especially arise if there are so called "failed" evals (that don't compile) and you have many evals. The causes are not well understood, but a failed eval could set perl into such a state that hundreds, if not thousands, of evals later there will be failures, including core dumps, infite loops, and possible other problems.

While evalling 20k lines should of course work, are you really sure you need to eval that much? It smells very fishy.

-- Abigail

In reply to Re: Odd eval Problem by Abigail
in thread Odd eval Problem by nontrivial

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