AutoLoader in perl5.005_03 lacks $VERSION

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Migrated from rt.perl.org#851 (status was 'resolved')

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From @gisle

The AutoLoader bundled with perl5.005_03 lacks a version number.
This makes CPAN.pm recommend that I upgrade to perl5.004_05.

$ perl -MCPAN -eshell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.50)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan> r
CPAN​: LWP​::UserAgent loaded ok
Going to read /home/gisle/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
CPAN​: Compress​::Zlib loaded ok
Going to read /home/gisle/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Scanning cache /home/gisle/.cpan/build for sizes
Going to read /home/gisle/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz

Package namespace installed latest in CPAN file
AutoLoader undef 5.56 CHIPS/perl5.004_05.tar.gz
198 installed modules have no parseable version number

Perl Info

Site configuration information for perl 5.00503:

Configured by gisle at Tue Mar 30 15:14:09 CEST 1999.

Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.2.1, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux eik.g.aas.no 2.2.1 #1 wed feb 17 22:26:37 cet 1999 i686 unknown '
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', optimize='-O2', gccversion=2.7.2.3
    cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL'
    ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL'
    stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=define, usevfork=false
    intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12
    alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =''
    libpth=/lib /usr/lib
    libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt
    libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic'
    cccdlflags='-fpic', lddlflags='-shared'

Locally applied patches:
    


@INC for perl 5.00503:
    /local/perl/5.005_03/lib/5.00503/i686-linux
    /local/perl/5.005_03/lib/5.00503
    /local/perl/5.005_03/lib/site_perl/5.005/i686-linux
    /local/perl/5.005_03/lib/site_perl/5.005
    .


Environment for perl 5.00503:
    HOME=/home/gisle
    LANG (unset)
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/gisle/bin:/opt/kde/bin:/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/local/perl/bin:/var/qmail/bin:/local/ssh/bin:/local/ssl/bin:/local/mysql/bin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/bash

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From [Unknown Contact. See original ticket]

Fixed in 5.6. Bug report marked as closed.

Thanks,

Nat