Cant install any perl module via ports "Undefined symbol "PL_tainting"

[Mike Jakubik]

On 2015-11-17 12:38 PM, Michelle Sullivan wrote:
> Hate to tell you this but you're going to get w**kered by people for 
> the
> versions..
> 
> You installed part of it from binary (pkgng) ...?
> 
> You upgraded perl? (or didn't upgrade perl) ....?


> IIRC perl 5.16 got 'retired' recently so if you got anything using 
> pkgng
> you probably got mismatched versions.
> 
> My advice uninstall all perl modules and perl itself and reload
> everything from either ports or pkgng (not both)...  You could just
> deinstall and rebuild p5-Encode as a shortcut - however it is likely
> soemthing else is broken so you might see the same over and over
> again... I find deinstalling recursively and reinstalling fixes and
> levels the playing field.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michelle
> 

I did a minor update of perl 5.16.3, now nothing that uses perl works, 
get the same error. Everything is installed from ports on the system, 
guess ill try to update to a newer version of perl and hope that doesn't 
break my perl applications.

Thanks.