mich...@insulin-pumpers.org writes: > Which version of perl?
Sorry for not mentioning that. I can reproduce the problem with perl 5.8.8 (Rhel5) and perl 5.10.0 (Debian Sid) The problem is also related to locale settings. In most cases (but not all :-( ), setting LC_LOCALE=posix (instead of en_US.utf8) gives correct results. > There was/is a bug in version 5.80 -5.85 that cause certain > operations with @_ to fail. This is particularly noticable with > "goto" where one wishes to preserve the stack and not further nest > subroutine calls. It was fixed in 5.086 and is not present in earlier > versions. There may be other issues surrounding this, but this is the > one the "bit" my modules. In some cases I have been able to work > around it in others the module carry a warning in the make file that > the perl library must be up/down graded to function. > > It seems that 5.84 is standard in many distributions. Indeed. Thanks for the help -- Dominique Dumont "Delivering successful solutions requires giving people what they need, not what they want." Kurt Bittner irc: domidumont at irc.freenode.net ddumont at irc.debian.org
