[cgiirc-general] "String found where operator expected" error in DirHandle.pm

[clemens h. <he...@se...>]

hi,

my installation of cgiirc fails to work (main window doesn't load even in
nph-mode) and continously produces the following error:

String found where operator expected at
/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/DirHandle.pm line 33, near "croak 'usage: new
DirHandle [DIRNAME]'"
	(Do you need to predeclare croak?)
String found where operator expected at
/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/DirHandle.pm line 49, near "croak 'usage:
$dh->open(DIRNAME)'"
	(Do you need to predeclare croak?)
String found where operator expected at
/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/DirHandle.pm line 55, near "croak 'usage:
$dh->close()'"
	(Do you need to predeclare croak?)
String found where operator expected at
/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/DirHandle.pm line 61, near "croak 'usage:
$dh->read()'"
	(Do you need to predeclare croak?)
String found where operator expected at
/usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/DirHandle.pm line 67, near "croak 'usage:
$dh->rewind()'"
	(Do you need to predeclare croak?)
syntax error at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/DirHandle.pm line 33, near "croak
'usage: new DirHandle [DIRNAME]'"
syntax error at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/DirHandle.pm line 49, near "croak
'usage: $dh->open(DIRNAME)'"
syntax error at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/DirHandle.pm line 55, near "croak
'usage: $dh->close()'"
syntax error at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/DirHandle.pm line 61, near "croak
'usage: $dh->read()'"
syntax error at /usr/libdata/perl/5.00503/DirHandle.pm line 67, near "croak
'usage: $dh->rewind()'"

i even tried uncommenting BEGIN { (my $dir = $0) =~ s|[^/]+$||;
chdir($dir) } but then it gives me "[error] (26)Text file busy"

any help would be appreciated!