On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 01:32 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: > Since Storable has an XS component, one very significant > difference is that using CPAN will compile Storable from source > against whatever Perl version you're using, whereas the Fink > version is pre-compiled against the stock 5.6.0 supplied by > Apple.
No - the Fink version will only be pre-compiled if you install the binary version (using apt-get or dselect). If you do "fink install storable-pm" it will compile from source against whatever version of perl version you have installed. -Ken