It looks to me as the Storable.xs file that ships with the 5.8.1 distributions differs a tiny bit from the one that ships with Storable-2.08 from CPAN. The 5.8.1 version seems correct, but I guess you might want to update the code in Storable-2.08 unless it is already done. *** perl-5.8.1/ext/Storable/Storable.xs Mon Sep 8 16:05:27 2003 --- Storable-2.08/Storable.xs Fri Sep 5 20:42:41 2003 *************** *** 784,788 **** #endif /* (PATCHLEVEL <= 6) */ ! #if (PATCHLEVEL < 8 || (PATCHLEVEL == 8 && SUBVERSION < 1)) #define PL_sv_placeholder PL_sv_undef #endif --- 784,788 ---- #endif /* (PATCHLEVEL <= 6) */ ! #if (PATCHLEVEL <= 8 || (PATCHLEVEL == 8 && SUBVERSION < 1)) #define PL_sv_placeholder PL_sv_undef #endif Thanks for all the work you do. Couldn't live without Perl. RolfThread Next