From: Andrew Cottrell <andnews AT ihug DOT com DOT oz DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Perl and Perldoc
Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 10:27:35 +1100
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>> > >   I've got some more time to look into perl and I've downloaded Perl
>> > > 5.8.0 over Perl 5.6.1.  I ran the command from bash
..SNIP..
>Andrew: Is Pod/ParseLink.pm in the Perl 5.8.0 binary package on clio.rice.edu?
>How did you generate the binary distribution?
The last Perl 5.8.0 I built was on 3-Dec-2002. I would have used the
Perl 5.6.1 manifest files to generate the zip file.

>When I generated the Perl 5.6.1 binary package, I had to hack the install
>scripts, to install into my temporary package-creation area. Did you do
>something similar? Or did you install into $DJDIR and then tar up the relevant
>files? Does Perl generate a manifest file on installation?
I don't remember haveing to do any hacking (but I may be wrong as this
was done last Oct/Nov).
The Perl 5.8.0 binary file at clio includes the manifest files. Perl
built from the FSF source tarball without any problems as far as I
could see, but since the origianl build you have patched Perl 5.6.1
and there were reports of problems with the Perl 5.8.0 last year
regarding help docs and some other quirks. Instead of spending allot
of time on updating Perl 5.8.0 and due to work comittments I now only
build Perl 5.6.1.


Andrew