perl: Data::Dumper dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _isWORDCHAR Referenced from: /perl5/Library/Perl/Updates/5.12.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.bundle Expected in: flat namespace dyld: Symbol not found: _isWORDCHAR

When installing Data::Dumper package 2.143 on MacOSX with perl 5.12.3 as runtime I received test results that were bad on the Dumper.xs tests. SO I forced the installation.... bad idea... got these errors on some of the Dumper calls when debugging DBIx result sets.

dyld: Symbol not found: _isWORDCHAR
  Referenced from: /Users/me/perl5/Library/Perl/Updates/5.12.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.bundle
  Expected in: flat namespace

Solution: manually get out there on CPAN and get 2.145

$ cd .cpan/build
$ wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/S/SM/SMUELLER/Data-Dumper-2.145.tar.gz
$ tar pfvx Data-Dumper-2.145.tar.gz
$ cd Data-Dumper-2.145
$ perl Makefile.PL
$ make && make test && make install

And it starts working ... here context of my Dumper calls that failed.... hope this helps anyone!

Can't set DBI::db=HASH(0x7f819f7c4108)->{HASH(0x7f819d3eab58)}: unrecognised attribute name or invalid value at /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/DBI.pm line 720.
Can't get DBI::db=HASH(0x7f819f7c4108)->{HASH(0x7f819d3eab58)}: unrecognised attribute name at /System/Library/Perl/Extras/5.12/darwin-thread-multi-2level/DBI.pm line 720.
SELECT me.server_os_type_map_seq, me.created_by_nm, me.created_dt, me.updated_by_nm, me.updated_dt, me.server_type_seq, me.os_version_seq FROM (
  SELECT me.server_os_type_map_seq, me.created_by_nm, me.created_dt, me.updated_by_nm, me.updated_dt, me.server_type_seq, me.os_version_seq  FROM PMI_SCHEMA.SERVER_OS_TYPE_MAP me 
) me WHERE ROWNUM <= ?
: '100'
SELECT me.os_version_seq, me.created_by_nm, me.created_dt, me.updated_by_nm, me.updated_dt, me.os_version_desc FROM PMI_SCHEMA.OS_VERSION me WHERE ( me.os_version_seq = ? ) : '32'
dyld: lazy symbol binding failed: Symbol not found: _isWORDCHAR
  Referenced from: /Users/me/perl5/Library/Perl/Updates/5.12.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.bundle
  Expected in: flat namespace

dyld: Symbol not found: _isWORDCHAR
  Referenced from: /Users/me/perl5/Library/Perl/Updates/5.12.3/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.bundle
  Expected in: flat namespace