Hmmm... I cannot give you an exact answer, but I can tell you this. I am running FreeBSD 3.3, and I was noticing really weird compile problems until I went up to gcc 2.9.2. The initial version of Perl installed on my machine was the one that you can install from the FreeBSD ports collection, which worked fine. But, when I tried upgrading, I received weird errors similar to yours until I went to the latest gcc. So, you may want to try that, or similarly install Perl through the ports collection and see if the same error occurs. Jason Simms ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com