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How did you get the older Perls working? (I've tried and failed to get them to build on Ubuntu.)



Manually patching the source in a few places, most of the time it's just adding a header file or two since some of them predate ANSI C and the standardized header files. The other things have to do with adding -DHAS_... to force them to know that opendir and friends are actually present, so that make install will actually work.


Any chance you could release the patches?




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