Is anyone familiar with this problem? A Google search turns up some notes -- enough for me to verify things with a test -- but I'm not sure how to fix things.

The problem is this: When using modules that use Crypt::Random, I get errors like this:

"makerandom" is not exported by the Crypt::Random module at /usr/local
+/lib/perl5
/site_perl/5.6.1/Crypt/Random/Generator.pm line 12 "makerandom_itv" is
+ not exported by the Crypt::Random module at /usr/local/lib/perl5/sit
+e_perl/5.6.1/Crypt/Random/Generator.pm line 12
"makerandom_octet" is not exported by the Crypt::Random module at /usr
+/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Crypt/Random/Generator.pm line 12
Can't continue after import errors at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5
+.6.1/Crypt/Random/Generator.pm line 12
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
+6.1/Crypt/Random/Generator.pm line 12, <GEN0> line 1.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/
+Crypt/Random.pm line 18, <GEN0> line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
+6.1/Crypt/Random.pm line 18, <GEN0> line 1.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/
+Crypt/DH.pm line 6, <GEN0> line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
+6.1/Crypt/DH.pm line 6, <GEN0> line 1.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/
+Net/SSH/Perl/Kex/DH1.pm line 13, <GEN0> line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
+6.1/Net/SSH/Perl/Kex/DH1.pm line 13, <GEN0> line 1.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/
+Net/SSH/Perl/Kex.pm line 6, <GEN0> line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
+6.1/Net/SSH/Perl/Kex.pm line 6, <GEN0> line 1.
Compilation failed in require at usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/N
+et/SSH/Perl/SSH2.pm line 6, <GEN0> line 1.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.
+6.1/Net/SSH/Perl/SSH2.pm line 6, <GEN0> line 1.
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/
+Net/SSH/Perl.pm line 51, <GEN0> line 1.
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I get this trying to use Net::SSH::Perl. I can reproduce it with this code:

use strict;

use Net::SSH::Perl;
use UNIVERSAL;  # <-- THIS LINE CAUSES THE PROBLEM

my $host = 'XXXXXXX';
my %opts = (port => 22, debug => 1, protocol => 2);

my $ssh = Net::SSH::Perl->new($host, %opts);
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My own code doesn't include that use UNIVERSAL line but if I search what I've installed from CPAN I find a lot of modules that do. If I take that line out, the errors disappear. That seems to be the source of the problem. But I have not found a fix referenced anywhere -- I can't remove all the ones in the CPAN modules I found. Even if I did, I wouldn't be able to upgrade without checking every one I download. This seems like something other monks should have hit somewhere along the line ...

This is Perl 5.6.1 on a Solaris 2.8 platform. I did some limited testing on a 5.8 Perl platform (also Solaris 2.8) and got the same thing. Any help appreciated.