And remember, one doesn't even have to worry about fiddling with the prefix. If you don't do anything else, the perl binary itself will be installed as (for instance) perl5.9.5, so it is not going to overwrite your existing 5.8 (or earlier) perl.

Then, one just has to change to the development directory of a module, and run

    perl5.9.5 Makefile.PL && make all test

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Note that Module::Build is bundled with bleadperl, so you can run perl5.9.5 Build.PL and it should Just Work.

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In reply to Re: "require Carp" may be hazardous to your code by grinder
in thread "require Carp" may be hazardous to your code by Steve_p

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