Yes, my perl is 5.8.8:

$ perl -v

This is perl, v5.8.8 built for x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
[...snip...]
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The test script segfaults as per your example. However:

$ perl -MSafe -e 'print $Safe::VERSION, "\n"'
2.14
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I now have two Safe.pm's:

2.14 is in /usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8/Safe.pm
2.15 is in /usr/lib/perl/5.8.8/Safe.pm

@INC is:

$ perl -MData::Dumper -e 'print Dumper(\@INC);'
$VAR1 = [
          '/etc/perl',
          '/usr/local/lib/perl/5.8.8',
          '/usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8',
          '/usr/lib/perl5',
          '/usr/share/perl5',
          '/usr/lib/perl/5.8',
          '/usr/share/perl/5.8',
          '/usr/local/lib/site_perl',
          '.'
        ];
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I'm not sure why there is a discrepancy (no difference in Makefile.PL between the two versions), although I installed 2.14 via the CPAN shell, and 2.15 via bash.

When I upgrade the test script to 'use lib qw(/usr/lib/perl)' before 'use Safe', it does not segfault and emits:

$ perl test.pl 
3.0.17
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