By the way, it's normal for the perl interpreter to install as both "perl" and "perl5.x.x". Or maybe I misread that part of your post.

Joost, Thanks for fast reply. Glad to know that it is normal for the perl interpreter to install both "perl and "perl5.x.x". The big problem...I am the sysadmin...I am somewhat familiar with Linux but not at all with Perl. So, I should re-install perl? I did that once already (same results), could you point me to the proper installation procedure? Obviously I have missed something. Thanks again!

A "standard" perl install from the source at CPAN should work like this:

# untar source, cd into the directory
./Configure
# answer bunch of questions (defaults are usually good)
make
make test
# change to root
make install
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However, FreeBSD has its own ports system that you should probably use instead if you want to install the default perl interpreter for that system.

I'm not at all familiar with BSD ports, but according to the link i posted above, you should "rerun use.perl port" after you 've done whatever you did to install perl.

this link seems to describe the same procedure.

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It is not uncommon to have an installation of Perl for command-line utilities, and one for web applications.

One sometimes has the situation where they do not have root/super access and they wish to install a version of Perl for themselves.

The clues as to which Perl gets called start at the application being run - what is the name of the file at the top of the file in the hash-bang statement? Is it /usr/bin/perl or /usr/local/perl/bin/perl or something else?

Next - what are the environment variables provided to the script that is being run? You might want to study your web server configuration files in depth.

I tried to reinstall. Make test runs fine and during the make install there is the same error: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/perl: Undefined symbol "PL_exit_flags" I am logged with Root permissions. Thanks for any advice.

Some hints:
• check whether you have any old libperl.so lying around
• check your LD_LIBRARY_PATH - it might point to bogus libs
• check the output of ldd /usr/local/bin/perl and verify it shows the right libraries

If the tests run fine, try setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH to the place where the perl libs (if building a shared libperl) reside.

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