Well, something definitely went drastically wrong for on my first tentative perl steps. So as I felt I made a complete mess of my system ( I couldn't even get perl helloworld.pl to work), i decided to start again.
First I did
rpm -e --nodeps perl
rpm -e --nodps mod_perl
rpm -e --apache
which i now realise was a mistake because my xchat client has failed :(
So then I dloaded stable.tar.gz for perl-5.8.0 and unpacked in my home dir and then went to read the install doc
It says, as you're all probably aware
The basic steps to build and install perl5 on a Unix system
with all the defaults are:
rm -f config.sh Policy.sh
sh Configure -de
make
make test
make install
however there are no config.sh or Policy.sh files in the unpacked archive, only config_h.SH and policy_h.SH, does it mean these?
and what are the -de flags for on configure
Title edit by tye