Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / December 2003

My issue is analogous to the existing "DBD::mysql fails tests" thread.
I'm using perl 5.8.1, as installed with OS X 10.3.  I upgraded my OS
and am beginning to think such a non-clean OS installation might be
contributing to my problem.

Just upgraded from 5.8 to 5.8.2 on OSXS 10.3.1.
During configure I specified /Library/Perl for site-specific libs.
It compiled, tested, and installed ok. But when I went to test a script it
complained that a module wasn't there, though it's in the perl lib path.

Why would a Perl Module installation wipe out a standard UNIX program
'head' with a head Perl script which is completely unrelated to the
real 'head' ??
I don't get it ... What next.

I'm struggling to try and understand a difference in the way my script runs
in Perl 5.6/Jaguar and Perl 5.8.1/Panther.  Consider this example:
sub x {
   for my $iii (0 .. (scalar @_) - 1) {