Odd perl dependency for MySQL 4.0.14 on RH9

[Andre Costa <acosta ar microlink com br>]

Hi all,

I built MySQL from scratch on my RH9 machine, and it is refusing to
install because of "perl(the)" requirement (??) :

rpm -ivh MySQL-client-4.0.14-0.i386.rpm 
error: Failed dependencies:
        perl(the) is needed by MySQL-client-4.0.14-0

If I list its dependencies, it comes as:

rpm -qpR MySQL-client-4.0.14-0.i386.rpm
/bin/sh  
/usr/bin/perl  
perl(CGI)  
perl(Exporter)  
perl(Fcntl)  
perl(Getopt::Long)  
perl(IPC::Open3)  
perl(POSIX)  
perl(Sys::Hostname)  
perl(the)  
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1

CGI, Exporter, Fcntl etc. are CPAN modules, AFAICS, but WTF is the
'the'??

I used the spec file provided directly by MySQL.org. If anyone can help
me solve this, or provide me links to MySQL 4.0.x RPMs for RH9, I would
be most grateful.

TIA,

Andre

-- 
Andre Oliveira da Costa