[Pdx-pm] Weak References and DVD::RIP

Michael G Schwern schwern at pobox.com
Mon Dec 17 10:45:34 PST 2007


Roderick A. Anderson wrote:
> Eric Wilhelm wrote:
>> # from chromatic
>> # on Friday 14 December 2007 21:25:
>>
>>> I think one of the Fedora
>>> patches to Perl re-ordered @INC such that Scalar::Util can't find its
>>> .so file.
> 
> So, is the only good way to fix this to rebuild Perl?  Pull the src RPM 
> and kill/remove the patch or portion of the patch that does this?
>     Then of course the next update will kill my fixes.

Try reinstalling Scalar::Util from CPAN.  It should overlay the core version.
http://search.cpan.org/dist/Scalar-Util

Or ask Redhat, it's their mess.


> Why would they do this?

Redhat has a baffling history of hitting perl with hammers.


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