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.cpan/build/JQuery-1.06-y7vdNg # perl Build.PL
Version '2.08a' from /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.1/HTML/Table.pm does not appear to be valid:
BEGIN { q# Hide from _packages_inside()
#; package Module::Build::ModuleInfo::_version::p3;
use Module::Build::Version;
no strict;

local $VERSION;
$VERSION=undef;
$vsub = sub {
$VERSION = '2.08a';;
$VERSION
};
}

The fatal error was: Invalid version format (non-numeric data) at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.12.1/Module/Build/ModuleInfo.pm line 348, <GEN4> line 6.