Hi all:

The following small script exhibits strange behavior on all of my ActivePerl
5.8 installs:

	use XML::Simple;
	use File::Spec::Functions;

	$config = XMLin('<opt builddir="c:/foo" /> ');

	print catfile($config-> {'builddir'}, 'bar') . "\n";
	print catfile($config-> {'builddir'}, 'bar') . "\n";
	print catfile($config-> {'builddir'}, 'bar') . "\n";

The problem happens with the second print statment.  On some machines, this
just hangs Perl indefinitely.  On others, it returns a bogus character in
the path string where the ':' should be, so the output looks like this:

	C:\foo\bar
	Cf\foo\bar
	C:\foo\bar

Also, if I manually create the $config hash reference instead of using
XML::Simple (i.e. $config = { builddir =>  'c:/foo/' }; ) then everything is
also fine.

Can anybody spare a clue for me on this one?  I'm using XML::Simple 1.06 and
File::Spec 0.82.

			thanks,
			   --FritzM.

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