> Somewhere, it uses $& or one of those operators that change the regex engine of > perl. I don't know if its been fixed in 5.8.7 or maint.
I'm running 5.8.7 and it still has this problem. I'm currently working around it by not preloading Image::Magick and using "require" to load Image::Magick on places where it's needed. It works but it's ugly.... Len