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My credit card processing interface (to CyberSource) broke today after we updated our Red Hat enterprise with the latest Perl. Apparently, the problem I hit was not all that rare.
The error I got was (approximately) “Version of perl at [path-to-perl] doesn’t support weak references at line 2447.” 
package SOAP::Server;
 

…
use Carp ();
use Scalar::Util qw(weaken);
sub DESTROY { SOAP::Trace::objects(‘()’) [...]

This one gave me fits for a couple whiles this afternoon. My commerce site ftp’s orders to another server for shipping. I was opening a pipe in perl to call ftp and send the file. Simple enough, worked for years and years.
Well, we recently upgraded our servers and intermittently I would get this message in [...]