O Wise Ones!

I am a bit at a loss. I'm using a linux test system together with some co-workers. The perl debugger is only used by me and I'm using it only now and then. So nobody recognized when the debugger ceased to work.

Any perl -d call will result in: 

Can't modify constant item in scalar assignment at xxxx.pl line 0, nea
+r "0;"
BEGIN not safe after errors--compilation aborted.

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Even things like 
perl -d -e 'print "X"'

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throw this error message. Larger perl scripts, too. The error is always in line 0.
Without -d everything workes fine.

BTW: perl -v is printing: 

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-thread-multi

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Thanks for any hint!

In reply to Fatal error only in debug modus by Ben Win Lue

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