VMware-vSphere-Perl-SDK-5.5.0-1384587 broken with perl 5.20

[mutombo]

as the topic said, the vmware SDK is broken with perl 5.20.2.

Possible precedence issue with control flow operator at /usr/share/perl/5.20/VMware/VICommon.pm line 2147.

is there a fix available?

[stumpr · Accepted solution]

The return order precedence isn't clear in VICommon.pm.  Probably 5.20.2 added that additional warning.

Untested, but try changing line 2146 of VICommon.pm to:

return (defined $user_agent->cookie_jar and

                  $user_agent->cookie_jar->as_string ne '');

[mutombo]

thanks alot, this fixes the error message, but it seems this wasnt my problem after all.

i forgot that the perl SDK has problems with Net-HTTP and libwww-perl.

downgraded both to 6.03 and everything works fine again.