in reply to Compiling and Installing Perl

And as I was searching for material about recompiling it ...
To recompile perl you must download the source first. It's freely available from CPAN (and ActivePerl's source is available from http://downloads.activestate.com).

In the source distributions you'll find a number of README files which install platform specific install instructions (like README.win32 for win32 platforms). These get installed as documentation in the from of perl$os (like perlwin32).

MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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