spamd 3.0.1 not filtering

[Dave Stern - Former Rocket Scientist]

I just installed sa3.0.1 on solaris 2.8 with perl5.8 as follows
perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/opt/spamassassin SYSCONFDIR=/opt/spamassassin/etc
make; make install
local.cf includes
allow_user_rules 1
bayes_auto_expire 0
use_razor2 0
skip_rbl_checks       1
use_dcc     0
use_pyzor   0
use_bayes   1
kick off spamd:
perl /opt/spamassassin/bin/spamd -d --syslog-socket=inet -r /var/tmp/spamd.pid
The logfile shows:
 Use of uninitialized value in quotemeta at
 /opt/spamassassin/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 977, 
<GEN35> line 688.
Use of uninitialized value in quotemeta at 
/opt/spamassassin/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm 
line 977, <GEN41> line 87

 Use of uninitialized value in quotemeta at 
/opt/spamassassin/lib/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 977, 
<GEN35> line 53.

I'm guessing I must have missed some compile flag but I can't figure
out what. Running a make test goes clean (altho it skips a few test).
Any ideas?
TIA

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 David Stern                                    University of Maryland
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