Huh? 
$ uname -a
Linux lt-gm 2.6.16-8-smp #1 SMP Tue Mar 28 11:00:06 UTC 2006 i686 i686
+ i386 GNU/Linux
$ /home/shmem/comp/perl5.6.1/bin/perl -V
Summary of my perl5 (revision 5.0 version 6 subversion 1) configuratio
+n:
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.16-8-smp, archname=i686-linux
    uname='linux lt-gm 2.6.16-8-smp #1 smp tue mar 28 11:00:06 utc 200
+6 i686 i686 i386 gnulinux '
...

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It does build. As does perl4.0.1.8 (patch level 36). Another question is whether it's sensible to use it.

What is a 'modern system' for you? I'm running OpenBSD 4, SuSE 10.1.

--shmem 

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In reply to Re^2: Artificial perl version dependencies by shmem
in thread Artificial perl version dependencies by rinceWind

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