Did anyone else's Perl 5.26 suddenly break?

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Tue Mar 6 02:06:35 UTC 2018


A script that I wrote and has worked fine for ages is now breaking with:

     Can't locate Scanner.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Scanner module) (@INC contains: /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26/darwin-thread-multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26 /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26/darwin-thread-multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.26 /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.26/darwin-thread-multi-2level /opt/local/lib/perl5/5.26) at ./uniscan.pl line 40.
     BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./uniscan.pl line 40.

That "Scanner.pm" module is one I wrote myself, and it's definitely there.

No, I haven't changed anything, and it works just fine on my FreeBSD 
(5.24) and Penguin (5.20) boxes.  Older Mac versions of Perl also work 
(5.16, 5.22, 5.24).

Rebooted (ugh!) to eliminate a corrupted image in swap: nope.

Uninstalled and reinstalled in case the disk binary was corrupt: nope.

Don't tell me that Perl 5.26 comes with a built-in time-bomb...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


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