On Saturday, January 26, 2002, at 10:31 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> There was a time when Perl would not let you select anything "after
> the fact" that was in the core distro.  Once it had decided that GDBM
> wasn't available, you simply couldn't use it, even if you tried to
> take the portion of the distro for GDBM and manually compile/install
> it later.  You had to re-./configure and build the entire distro
> again.

That totally sucks!  Do you know what the reason was?

  -Ken

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