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Mike R Brown wrote:
> [snip]
>     Nope.  With a current updatedb locate found one perl.exe under 
> /usr/bin.  When I renamed this perl.exe to perly.exe and copied the 
> version that worked from my machine and did a version check while in 
> /usr/bin  I get
> 
> ./perly - v   returned 5.8.8 (original questionable perl)
> ./perl -v     returned 5.8.7 (perl from working box)
> 
> Everything I have checked points to just one Perl installation.  So 
> maybe the question here is where did this version come from?

That is indeed a good question, since the latest available 'perl' from 
kernel.org is 5.8.7-5. The full output of 'perly -v' (that's the 
questionable perl) may tell you something.

-- 
Matthew
<insert bad pun... on second thought, better not>


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