Hi, I saw another message about getting a perl error 'Fatal error: can't parse object version..." after an upgrade to 4.9, and have a fix and an explanation.
Fix: add this line: no lib qw(/usr/local/libdata/perl5 /usr/local/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.12.2 /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl /usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd); to the start of these libs, near the "package" declaration: /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/Error.pm /usr/libdata/perl5/OpenBSD/Paths.pm Explanation: In a /usr/local directory is a shared library from a different version of perl- Digest::SHA- and it's a binary (aka XS or .so) version. I have installed my own build of perl into /usr/local which might be the cause- though it can also happen with the system perl, All one has to do is install a binary/XS version of a library that system perl has a non-binary version of, in a directory that the system perl uses. System perl programs only need libraries in these directories, which yo probably will never install anything into- /usr/libdata/perl5 /usr/libdata/perl5/i386-openbsd/5.12.2 /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl /usr/libdata/perl5/site_perl/i386-openbsd My "no lib" solution tells systerm Perl programs to ignore the /usr/local perl libraries. Not sure if those two modules cover all system perl programs, but it works for the pkg_* ones for sure. -y
