After upgrade to Perl-5.8.8-38.el5_8 error "Can't call method "reftype" on unblessed reference at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Safe.pm line 370." is received when running PERL scripts

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • After upgrading to perl-5.8.8-38.el5_8, CPAN error received:
"Can't call method "reftype" on unblessed reference at /usr/lib64/perl5/5.8.8/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/Safe.pm line 370."

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise 5.8
  • perl-5.8.8-38.el5_8
  • cpan v1.7602

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