Looks like RedHat 9's Perl strikes again. RedHat 9 shipped with a prerelease version of Perl 5.8.1 with broken UTF-8 handling. If you set your LANG environment variable to something which is not UTF8 (de_DE should work, or C) things should start working again. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87682 On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 11:17:01PM -0000, andreas.scherr@risch.net (via RT) wrote: > This is a bug report for perl from andreas.scherr@risch.net, > generated with the help of perlbug 1.34 running under perl v5.8.0. <snip> > Warning: I could not locate your pod2man program. Please make sure, > your pod2man program is in your PATH before you execute 'make' > > Writing Makefile for Archive::Zip > Makefile:88: *** Fehlendes Trennzeichen.. Schluss. > /usr/bin/make -j3 -- NOT OK <snip> > Summary of my rderl (revision 5.0 version 8 subversion 0) configuration: > Platform: > osname=linux, osvers=2.4.20-2.48smp, archname=i386-linux-thread-multi > uname='linux str' <snip> > Locally applied patches: > MAINT18379 <snip> > Environment for perl v5.8.0: > HOME=/root > LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 > LANGUAGE (unset) -- Cuius rei demonstrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc subcriptis exigutias non caperet.