Thank you to all who responded in this thread and by private email --
your replies were very helpful! Following Stuart Henderson's suggestion,
I found that I did indeed have a
/usr/local/libdata/perl5/site_perl/amd64-openbsd/auto/Term/ReadLine/Gnu
containing (among other things) an out-of-date file Gnu.so.
I have now "solved" the problem by replacing the entire
/usr/local/libdata/perl5/
tree with a copy of that from a twin machine (also amd64/7.3, just
upgraded from 7.2) which doesn't seem to have this problem.
After that the immediate problem (fatal error on /use Term::ReadPassword;/)
is gone. I did another full 'pkg_add -uvv' to be on the safe side, which
found a few 'file already exists', but after overwriting those everything
seems to be working now.
Thanks again to everyone who helped!
ciao,
--
-- "Jonathan Thornburg [remove -color to reply]" <dr.j.thornb...@gmail-pink.com>
on the west coast of Canada
"Now back when I worked in banking, if someone went to Barclays,
pretended to be me, borrowed UKP10,000 and legged it, that was
`impersonation', and it was the bank's money that had been stolen,
not my identity. How did things change?" -- Ross Anderson
