> Ok... the significance of this is...?? Well in your case, the significance of appears overwhelming — in that it is an excellent clue as to the cause of your problem, I believe.
ie - there is nothing wrong on your system, it is nothing you did, it is not your fault, indeed something has changed — all that kind of stuff. So it is the starting point of sorting out a solution maybe, whatever the solution might be. I think - on systems of a certain age, we leave the build compiler for perl as the build compiler, and just add a run dep on that compiler for perl. Maybe. I gave it literally just 60 seconds worth of thought, so perhaps (no doubt) you will come up with something better for us. Ken
