On Nov 29, 2004, at 8:54 AM, angie ahl wrote:

I've decided to get right up to date with the latest stable perl 5.8.6

That's actually a "release candidate" - the final 5.8.6 release is due any day now.


I'm posting this message as much for the mail archive as anything as I
didn't  find anything particularly helpful there.

It's brief, that's true - but that's primarily because there's not much to say about it. The standard instructions for building and installing under UNIX basically Just Work.


Has anyone done this before?Any problems or reasons not to install
your own version of perl in /usr/local/

No problems, that's the default location.

sherm--

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