Either I managed to fool the repository into some seriously strange state or the filesystem I have my working copy on is falling apart, or both. The net result: please do not bother reporting if your Perl copy, either via perforce, or via the patches, won't build or won't test past the change #8119. Been there, seen that. Since and including the change #8120 I started seeing Heisenbugs by the truckload and now after three hours of unapplying and reapplying patches and manual tweakery I still can't figure out what's wrong. I will take a fresh look tomorrow, armed with more sleep and coffee. -- $jhi++; # http://www.iki.fi/jhi/ # There is this special biologist word we use for 'stable'. # It is 'dead'. -- Jack CohenThread Next