On some versions of Perl, using File::Temp->tempfile gives the error: 'tempfile' can't be called as a method at -e line 1. which is true because tempfile shouldn't be used as a method. This patch fixes the occurrences in the po4a-0.44 source. Note this reveals a subtle bug too. There was some code which did: File::Temp->tempfile ($filename, ...) In this case, the first arg to the "method" tempfile is the File::Temp object, so AFAICT the $filename is being ignored or at least not used correctly. In this case $filename contained a full path like "po/pod/foo". If you fix the method bug, $filename is suddenly being used for the first time, and since it contains a full path, the program breaks (because the parent directories don't exist). Therefore I replaced that code with: $basename = basename ($filename); File::Temp::tempfile ($basename, ...) Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org