Re: CPAN can't write makefiles after perl 5.8.1 reinstall on 10.3.4

[Joel Rees]

>> Would someone else take a look at that page and tell me whether they 
>> agree with me that it looks like some summer intern at Apple has kind 
>> of laid a little land mine in there, maybe thinking he was bringing 
>> the page up to date with Panther?
>
> Absolutely. I wish Apple would take that page down - it was broken 
> even for Jaguar.

What I'm wondering about is this:

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A quick trip to Jaguar’s Terminal showed me that this version didn’t 
make it into the default install:

     [cpu:~] user% perl -v
     This is perl, v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
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I'm supposed to believe that little exchange was on a default Jaguar 
install?

> The latest Perl (5.8.4) comes with a readme.macosx file. Please, read 
> and follow those instructions. Apple's instructions may be of interest 
> to historians, but they have no relevance to the current Mac OS X.

I note the original was contributed. Maybe it's time to contribute a 
new one. I wonder if I kept any notes when I did the parallel install 
of 5.8.4 on this Jaguar box.

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Joel Rees
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     We all have two, and they all smell,
     but we really don't want the other guy to get rid of his.