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Date: Wed, 15 Nov 1995 09:34:42 +1100 (EST)
From: Carey Nairn <cp_nairn@cc.utas.edu.au>
To: David Brockus <dbrockus@cyberhall.com>
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Subject: Re: Perl 5 on FreeBSD 2.0.5
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On Tue, 14 Nov 1995, David Brockus wrote:

> I was reading in the description of the Perl 5 port on www.freebsd.org 
> that it had a bug.  Is there a stable release of Perl 5?  Or is this 
> release stable?  Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> David
> 
>  
> 

I am running Perl 5.001m on a 2.0.5 system with no problems.  Just 
compiled it from the sources.  The only problem I had with the compile 
was in the makefile.  An apparently blank line contained a TAB and make 
coughed at that.  Removing the line fixed the problem.

cheers,
Carey

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