From bobgus@mcs.com

This problem may be due to my screwing around with an unruly extension (on
prior runs, It would core), but it might be a syntax error in an
infrequently used routine.

BobG

Missing right curly or square bracket at
/usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Carp/Heavy.p
m line 100, at end of line
syntax error at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Carp/Heavy.pm line 100, at EOF
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Carp.pm line
97, <IN

chunk 11 during global destruction.

[root@​hoho0 perlt]# vi /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/Carp/Heavy.pm

This is a cut and paste of this section of Heavy.pm - looks OK...

  else {
  s/'/\\'/g;
  # terminate the string early with '...' if too long
  substr($_,$MaxArgLen) = '...'
  if $MaxArgLen and $MaxArgLen < length;
  }
  # 'quote' arg unless it looks like a number
  $_ = "'$_'" unless /^-?[\d.]+$/;

Configuration below

[root@​hoho0 perlt]# perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 0) configuration​:
  Platform​:
  osname=linux, osvers=2.4.0-test2-ac2, archname=i686-linux
  uname='linux hoho0.chidig.com 2.4.0-test2-ac2 #1 tue jun 27 02​:24​:04
cdt 200
0 i686 unknown '
  config_args='-de'
  hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
  usethreads=undef use5005threads=undef useithreads=undef
usemultiplicity=unde
f
  useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef uselargefiles=define
  use64bitint=undef use64bitall=undef uselongdouble=undef usesocks=undef
  Compiler​:
  cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2
release)
  cppflags='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include'
  ccflags ='-fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE
-D_F
ILE_OFFSET_BITS=64'
  stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
  intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
  d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
  ivtype='long', ivsize=4, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t',
lseeksize
=8
  alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries​:
  ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib'
  libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib
  libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
  libc=/lib/libc-2.1.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking​:
  dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
  cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib'

Characteristics of this binary (from libperl)​:
  Compile-time options​: USE_LARGE_FILES
  Built under linux
  Compiled at Jul 7 2000 23​:56​:54
  @​INC​:
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0/i686-linux
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.6.0
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0/i686-linux
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.0
  /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl
  .
[root@​hoho0 perlt]#

From @schwern

5.6.0 was known to have serious issues with regard to Carp​::Heavy. Could you check if
this bug is gone in a newer Perl?

@smpeters - Status changed from 'open' to 'stalled'

p5p@spam.wizbit.be - Status changed from 'stalled' to 'rejected'