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You'll probably have a (very) good reson to build a perl distribution that is over 4 years old.

It is likely that Devel::PatchPerl can be of help. This will update the distribution to match more recent development state.

Of course you need a running perl to use it

use strict;
use warnings;
 
use Devel::PatchPerl;
 
Devel::PatchPerl->patch_source ("5.14.1", "/here/deeper/perl-5.14.1");

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Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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Re^2: Building perl fails tests with 01_Archive-Extract.t, stress.t and h2ph.t
by Montronaloya (Initiate) on Aug 19, 2015 at 11:22 UTC
    I've now edited my post with the link recommending the perl downgrade. I originally tried using the default perl, and Logitech Media Server failed. Preferably I'd like to keep two versions of perl installed. The system version would be the current perl available from the repos (5.20.2), and the older version only used by Logitech Media Server. The latter would be installed at /opt as per the -Dprefix flag in ./Configure (and the link recommendations). However, if I can't get this to work, I'll attempt to modify the sole perl install as you suggest. Thanks for the advice.
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