Many thanks for all the replies.
Everybody said that they had little if any trouble with PERL5 obtained
from the usual mirrors. However we tried again with 5.001 from the DEC
site and that would not compile due to problems with missing libraries,
so we moved to 5.003 pulled down from Imperial (src.doc.ic.ac.uk). This
compiled well although it failed one test.
It also fails badly with the LOCALE command as a warning. The error is
given as:
warning: setllocale(LC_CTYPE, "") failed.
warning: LC_ALL = "(null)", LC_CTYPE = "(null)", LANG ="en_GB.ISO8859-1",
warning: falling back to the "C" locale.
but this doesnt stop it working. I am unsure if this is a leftover
from some time ago when we upgraded from 3.0b to 3.2c (via 3.2). We get
a similar warning but not so detailed when we start Netscape.
Last word seems to be - use 5.003 and accept the Configure defaults with -d.
Stuart McKenzie
Received on Mon Jan 13 1997 - 19:22:38 NZDT