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Subject: Re: Program update(s)
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 09:47:39PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn typed:
> Can someone tell me why I have to recompile all related programs when I 
> upgrade to a newer version of Perl? How easy it would be that all these 
> 'to be recompiled' programs only were linked to just Perl instead of 
> Perl.x.x.x. Or is that a complete wrong way of approach?

Can you guarantee that all these programs will work with perl.y.y.y ?