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From:
Alexandr Ciornii via RT
Date:
December 15, 2008 16:35
Subject:
[perl #7525] UNABLE TO BUILD PERL 5.6.1 IN WINDOWS NT
Message ID:
rt-3.6.HEAD-10965-1229369977-978.7525-15-0@perl.org
http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=7525
CPAN now has "If you are on a UNIX, I strongly suggest that you compile
Perl yourself from the source code distribution.". And it is not a
problem to compile 5.8.8 or 5.10.0 with gcc on Windows (see Strawberry
Perl).
This ticket can be closed.

Aug 20 09:35:36 2001, RT_System wrote:
>  If you go into the CPAN site and open "binary distributions", then at the
> top of the resulting page you get some pungent advice:
> 
>   "I strongly suggest that you compile Perl yourself from the source code
> distribution. This way you always get the latest Perl and you can
configure
> Perl as you like and you avoid the security risks inherent in installing
> binary distributions."
> 
>   Reading that I just knew that I had to do what I had to do!
> 


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Alexandr Ciornii, http://chorny.net


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