Exactly! Now if this is a legitimate issue for users of your platform (and this seems to be the case) you could perhaps consider raising this as a bug, so that the issue can be addressed.

Update:

So reading http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2010/08/msg163485.html we see:

'To repeat what I said off list I think this seems fine (probably a good idea to explain why it is needed), but I think that the list should be aware of this just in case they have further suggestions. In particular I wonder if the chosen value of $^O is "right"...'

So the chosen value of $^O seems to be in question from the outset.

In reply to Re^10: perl-5.18.0 install problem by marto
in thread perl-5.18.0 install problem by laszlot

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