Byte order is not compatible

[ChrisHunt]

I'm having trouble retrieving the contents of a Storable file after (I assume) my hosts have upgraded Perl. The error message I get is:

Byte order is not compatible at blib/lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into blib/lib/auto/Storable/_retrieve.al) line 380

Some googling suggests that this can be fixed by setting [tt]$Storable::interwork_56_64bit[/tt], but this doesn't seem to be helping. Here's what I tried:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Storable;
BEGIN {
 $Storable::interwork_56_64bit = 1;
} 
use Data::Dumper;

print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";

my $books = retrieve ("/home/napitali/secure/libris/data/books.dat");
print Dumper ($books);

But it still bombs out with this message:

Byte order is not compatible at blib/lib/Storable.pm (autosplit into blib/lib/auto/Storable/_retrieve.al) line 380, at migrate.pl line 13

I get that regardless of the value of [tt]$Storable::interwork_56_64bit[/tt].

Any ideas?

-- Chris Hunt
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