I have a Sharp Zaurus 5600 which I use perl on often enough. I found this package somewhere... but I can't remember. perl_5.8.3-3_arm.deb

It looks like it's from the ARM port of Debian. If you can't find it, let me know and I'll email it to you.

Package: perl
Version: 5.8.3-3
Section: perl
Priority: standard
Architecture: arm
Depends: perl-base (= 5.8.3-3), perl-modules (>= 5.8.3-3), libc6 (>= 2
+.3.2.ds1-4), libdb4.0, libgcc1 (>= 1:3.3.3-1), libgdbm3
Suggests: perl-doc, libterm-readline-perl-perl
Conflicts: perl-5.004 (<< 6), perl-5.005 (<< 6), perl-5.6 (<< 6), perl
+-doc (<< 5.8.3-1), libdigest-md5-perl (<< 2.33-1), libmime-base64-per
+l (<< 2.21-1), libtime-hires-perl (<< 1.52-1), libstorable-perl (<< 2
+.08-1)
Replaces: perl-5.005 (<< 6), perl-5.6 (<< 6), perl-doc (<< 5.8.0-1), p
+erl-modules (<< 5.8.1-1), libdigest-md5-perl, libmime-base64-perl, li
+btime-hires-perl, libstorable-perl
Provides: perl5, libdigest-md5-perl, libmime-base64-perl, libtime-hire
+s-perl, libstorable-perl
Installed-Size: 10560
Maintainer: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>

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Also, try this: http://www.cpan.org/ports/sharp/Perl_5.8.0_arm.ipk
or email Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> the maintainer

In reply to Re: embedded perl by whiteEFunk
in thread embedded perl by fz315

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