I realize 5.10 has been out for 7 months. It is not in the ports as of yet for freebsd.. No response from our port keeper for perl to add it. Please be aware it will not compile on freebsd 7.0 (32 bit I386 release) miniperl crashes and generates a core dump, segmenation fault. LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/src/progs/perl-5.10.0 gcc -Wl,-E -L/usr/local/lib -L/lib -L/usr/lib -o miniperl `echo gv.o toke.o perly.o op.o pad.o regcomp.o dump.o util.o mg.o reentr.o mro.o hv.o av.o perl.o run.o pp_hot.o sv.o pp.o scope.o pp_ctl.o pp_sys.o doop.o doio.o regexec.o utf8.o taint.o deb.o universal.o xsutils.o globals.o perlio.o perlapi.o numeric.o mathoms.o locale.o pp_pack.o pp_sort.o | sed 's/ op.o / /'` miniperlmain.o opmini.o -lm -lcrypt -lutil LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/src/progs/perl-5.10.0 ./miniperl -w -Ilib -MExporter -e '<?>' || make minitest Segmentation fault (core dumped) LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/src/progs/perl-5.10.0 ./miniperl -Ilib configpm Segmentation fault (core dumped) *** Error code 139 Stop in /usr/src/progs/perl-5.10.0. *** Error code 1 (ignored) You may see some irrelevant test failures if you have been unable to build lib/Config.pm, lib/lib.pm or the Unicode data files. cd t && (rm -f perl; /bin/ln -s ../miniperl perl) && LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/src/progs/perl-5.10.0 ./perl TEST -minitest base/*.t comp/*.t cmd/*.t run/*.t io/*.t op/*.t uni/*.t mro/*.t </dev/tty Segmentation fault (core dumped) *** Error code 139 (ignored) LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/src/progs/perl-5.10.0 ./miniperl -Ilib configpm Segmentation fault (core dumped) *** Error code 139 Stop in /usr/src/progs/perl-5.10.0. Nothing in the archives. Stops even in default configuration. Thanks RickThread Next